40 years of Songs from the Big Chair: a record that taught me to live with the tension between “Shout” and “Everybody Wants to Rule the World.”

For Inspiration: “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by Tears for Fears

Most AI tools support to collaboration focuses on transcripts, summaries, and notes. But recording conversations doesn’t create alignment—grounding mechanisms do.

AI Agents in teamwork should focus on maintaining shared understanding, not just documenting collaboration.

Common Ground at Scale: Maintaining Shared Understanding When Agents Mediate

As “The Secret Agent” walks into Oscar weekend with four nominations, the real question isn’t “How many Oscars?” but “Which values are we amplifying when the world is watching?” From Recife’s streets to Hollywood, what should success mean for artists and designers today?

Arts in Brazil: “The Secret Agent” Heads into Oscar Weekend with Four Nominations

Everyone’s excited about AI agents. But a harder question remains: what would need to be true for them to actually stay aligned with the human job-to-be-done over time? Not just at the prompt, but across decisions, context, and collaboration. Curious how others think about this.

Preventing Agent Drift: Designing AI Systems That Stay Aligned With Human Intent

Time-on-task doesn’t mean what you think it does for #AI agents. Neither does “task success.” The #usability metrics we’ve relied on for 30 years need fundamental rethinking—but performance and satisfaction still don’t always correlate. What changes, what stays, and what’s missing? #AgenticAI

Usability in the Age of AI

#AI enhances individual cognition like summarizing and synthesizing, but #teamwork requires coordinating interdependence and shared awareness.

We must decide how to design for when agents stay peripheral or they should intervene.

#AgenticAI #CSCW #Collaboration

Designing Awareness in Agent-Mediated Collaboration

We’ve spent years optimizing individual productivity with #AI.
But what happens when agents start mediating how #teams coordinate, negotiate, and build #sharedunderstanding?

Are we designing #collaborative systems — or just automating #distributedwork?

Collaboration in the Age of AI: From groupware to Agent-Mediated Teamwork

If #AI agents can interpret intent and execute #workflows autonomously, what makes them trustworthy? Accuracy isn’t enough. #Transparency isn’t enough. So what is?

This piece explores why #explainability must move from feature to infrastructure — and what that means for design.

Designing for Explainability: From Interrogability to Intent Alignment

If #AI can already “do the doing”, what’s left for us? I argue that #taste —as a learnable mix of judgment, sensitivity, and ethics—is now a core decision skill in tech. How should #designers, #devs, and #ProducManagers train it and use it to steer agents, not just ship outputs? #aesthetics

Taste Is the New Bottleneck: Design, Strategy, and Judgment in the Age of Agents and Vibe-Coding

In addition to ‘Canção da América’, Milton Nascimento and Fernando Brant are the authors of other great Brazilian songs, such as 'Travessia’ and 'Maria Maria’ #Music #Brazil #Inspiration

For Inspiration: “Canção da América” by Milton Nascimento

If #AI can already generate #ideas, #mockups, and #prototypes, why are so many teams still misaligned?
Maybe the real opportunity isn’t automating #design—but redesigning how we collaborate with agents. Curious where you’d draw the line.

When AI Becomes a Design Teammate: Applying Human-Agent Centered Design to Our Own Work

If agentic systems hide their reasoning, trust collapses.
What if interaction wasn’t about issuing commands—but about questioning, negotiating, and governing autonomy? This post argues interaction is where trust is earned. #humanagentcentereddesign #AI #UXforAI #mlUX #AIUX #AgenticAI

Designing Human-Agent Interaction: Principles for Trustworthy Collaboration

How does The Secret Agent’s portrayal of Brazil’s dictatorship era challenge us to design with memory and ethics today? Wagner Moura’s historic Globe win—from public payphones to global stages—sparks debate. What’s your take on art confronting power?

For Inspiration: Wagner Moura Wins Best Actor at Golden Globes

Discover Recife and Pernambuco’s soul in The Secret Agent’s “orelhão” calls and dictatorship intrigue—how does this local pulse fuel global cinema? Dive into the culture behind Wagner Moura’s breakout buzz. What’s Recife’s untold story for you? #IMDB #Brazil #Cinema

Arts in Brazil: “The Secret Agent” Sparks Oscar Buzz with Nominations Momentum

Before Brazil became a country of cheap data plans and group chats, conversations flowed through a fiberglass “big ear” on the corner. The end of the orelhões in 2026 is more than urban cleanup; it is a quiet farewell to a different idea of connection. #DesignHistory #Telecommunications

R.I.P. Orelhão

Most #AI failures don’t come from bad intent—but from unexamined decisions. What if discovery rituals, not principles, are where Unintended Outcomes really surface? How do second-order effects sneak in? #unintendedconsequences #Ethics #Design #HACD #HumanAgentCenteredDesign

Managing Unintended Consequences: Designing Encapsulated Workflows to Anticipate AI Side Effects

2025 wasn’t about better #AI tools—it was about the consequences we quietly locked into #workflows, #agents, and systems.

This post reflects on what changed, what we overlooked, and why responsibility became a design concern again.

#AgenticAI #Ethics #HumanAgentCenteredDesign

2025 Year in Review

Jimmy Cliff didn’t just influence a genre—he shaped how #reggae traveled, adapted, and spoke across cultures. How did reggae enter your musical life, and what did it change for you? #RIP #Music

For Inspiration: “Querem Meu Sangue (They Harder They Come)” by Titãs featuring Jimmy Cliff

Designers: If AI agents start deciding for users, who fights for the guardrails? Principles fail—workflows win.

Your duty: Advocate where autonomy meets risk. Who’s with me?

Operationalizing AI Ethics in Design: From High-Level Principles to Encapsulated Workflows

Agents are collapsing our workflows into invisible steps. If flows move “inside” the system, what should designers actually be designing: screens, or human–agent contracts? How are you handling authority, guardrails, and trust in your agentic products today? #HumanAgentCenteredDesign #HACD #AI

Workflow Encapsulation in Human–Agent Centered Design: From Doing Work to Governing Outcomes

#AgenticAI experiences only “work” only when both humans and systems succeed in tandem. Not just one. This post explores how H-ACD’s “Dual Evaluation” principle helps build trust, create value, and make better product decisions. #Usability #HumanAgentCenteredDesign #AI

Dual Evaluation: Measuring Both Human Experience and Agent Effectiveness

Was Mani the heartbeat of Madchester or did his influence go even further? Let’s talk legacy, basslines, and why his impact still echoes today. Join the debate and share memories of the Stone Roses’ iconic bassist. #Music #Madchester #BassPlayers #MusicHistory

For Inspiration: “She Bangs the Drums” by The Stone Roses

We’ve spent decades perfecting user flows. But what happens when AI collapses the steps and users just express outcomes? Is “flow” still a useful concept in modern UX—or do we need a new mental model entirely? Let’s debate. #AI #AgenticAI #HumanAgentCenteredDesign #InteractionDesign #InterfaceDesign #UX #ConversationDesign #UXforAI

Flows in the Age of Agentic AI: Our Core UX Models No Longer Apply?

Around 1.6 million jobs would be affected by the structural change and would either be eliminated or newly created over the projection period, the authors write in the study. IT and information service providers would benefit particularly, with labor demand expected to increase by around 110,000 people. In areas such as business services, however, approximately 120,000 jobs could be lost. #employment #trendwatching #Germany #Labor #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

Information Technology in Germany: AI could increase GDP by 4.5 trillion Euros

AI can now prototype faster than we can think — but shared understanding still takes time. Here’s why design critiques may become more strategic, not less, in the era of AI prototyping.

Rethinking Design Critiques in the Age of AI Prototyping

Wage inequality in between men and women Brazil has worsened since the beginning of the historical series: in the first report, published in March last year, the difference was 19.4%. In the second, in September, it rose to 20.7%. The third, released in April this year, recorded a salary difference of 20.9% - a number that evolved to the current 21.2%.

Economy in Brazil: women receive 21% less than men in the private sector

In Budapest, I stumbled upon Retro Cube — a shop celebrating Hungary’s most ingenious invention, the Rubik’s Cube. Standing before its window, my reflection merged with a wall of puzzles — a quiet reminder of how design, logic, and play often twist together in unexpected ways.

Self-Portrait: Rubik Cube

Budapest is a city of contrasts — elegant yet raw, tragic yet resilient. From Szentendre’s art-lined streets to Buda’s castle hills and Pest’s gilded cafés, we spent three days tracing its layers — discovering not just a city, but the stories it still carries.

Travel Journal: Budapest

Self-Portrait: Elsé Pesti Rétesház

On a brisk stroll through central in a recent trip to Budapest (travel journal post coming soon), I paused at the façade of the Else Pesti Rétesház (“First Strudel House of Pest”), a thoughtful moment captured in glass and reflection (see photo above). Standing at the threshold of Október 6. utca 22, I found myself visually entangled in both the building’s past and my own moment of presence in…

Self-Portrait: Elsé Pesti Rétesház

As agents grow smarter, what remains distinctly human in the act of creation? This piece explores how to use Human-Agent Centered Design (HACD) principles to protect authorship, craft, and the flow that makes #creativity meaningful. #ArtificialIntelligence #AgenticAI #HACD

Reimagining Creativity When Agents Do the Doing