Month: September 2025

Agents are here, how we build and use them is challenging many of the foundations for building software that we established over the last few decades — and even the very idea of what a product is. Prompt by the author, image by Sora. This article is a continuation of previous explorations on the theme of how AI is …

We know how to design liminal products that deliver deeper and more interesting experiences, not just more and faster transactions. But current business models are stuck pumping around the same corporate water in the aquarium until the fish die — we now need to look for brand new revenue perspectives to keep up. The famous 1910 Kuleshov experiment …

The junkspace non-place of the modern aerotropolis. Moving walkway, Changi Airport station, Singapore, 2020, via Wikimedia Commons. Lines. Crowds. That brief certainty you’ll be stopped at security and sent to jail, or that your bag will end up in Fort Lauderdale. Even when it doesn’t, you have to watch it plop out of that diabolical …

What designers can learn from the first interface — the human face Applying the oldest form of communication to modern design systems. Image source: https://appliedalliance.wordpress.com/2014/06/16/micro-expressions/ The idea that the human face is our “original interface” is well established. Psychologists, anthropologists, and HCI researchers have argued for decades that it is the most intuitive system we’ve ever used. What often …