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

https://www.designative.info/2026/02/01/taste-is-the-new-bottleneck-design-strategy-and-judgment-in-the-age-of-agents-and-vibe-coding/

Touching down in San Francisco tomorrow ✈️

I’ll be in the Bay Area until next Friday before heading back to Germany.

Every trip here reminds me how much I value conversations—reconnecting with old friends and making new ones!

If you’re around and up for a coffee, a walk, or a quick exchange on design, product, AI, or strategy, I’d love to meet.

Feel free to DM me or tag someone who should join ☕️

#SanFrancisco #BayArea #Design #UX #Product #AI #Strategy

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

https://www.designative.info/2024/07/27/for-inspiration-cancao-da-america-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.

https://www.designative.info/2026/01/21/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

https://www.designative.info/2026/01/15/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?

https://www.designative.info/2026/01/13/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 #Movies https://www.designative.info/2026/01/12/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

https://www.designative.info/2026/01/12/r-i-p-orelhao/

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

https://www.designative.info/2026/01/05/managing-unintended-consequences-designing-encapsulated-workflows-to-anticipate-ai-side-effects/

"Playing it again did take me back to that time before the Internet, when not even hint lines, insta-death, and EGA graphics could dampen the wonder of the new worlds computers were capable of showing us." https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/05/sierra-made-the-games-of-my-childhood-are-they-still-fun-to-play/ #VintageGaming #RetroGaming #GamingHistory via @arstechnica

Best Data Visualization Projects of 2025 – FlowingData https://flowingdata.com/2025/12/31/best-data-visualization-2025/

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

https://www.designative.info/2026/01/01/2025-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

https://www.designative.info/2025/11/24/for-inspiration-querem-meu-sangue-they-harder-they-come-by-titas-featuring-jimmy-cliff/

Instagram chief: #AI is so ubiquitous 'it will be more practical to fingerprint real media than fake media' Adam Mosseri says creators should prioritize "unflattering" images to prove they are real. https://www.engadget.com/social-media/instagram-chief-ai-is-so-ubiquitous-it-will-be-more-practical-to-fingerprint-real-media-than-fake-media-202620080.html #SocialMedia #Creativity #DigitalImaging

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?

https://www.designative.info/2025/12/22/operationalizing-ai-ethics-in-design-from-high-level-principles-to-encapsulated-workflows/

#artificialintelligence #businessdecisions #ethics #ethicsintech #aiethics #Accessibility #DecisionMaking #HumanComputerInteraction #HumanAgentCenteredDesign #Privacy #TrustBuilding #UX #AI #AgenticAI #DarkPatterns #DesignPrinciples #MoralPrinciples #DesignPhilosophy #WorkflowEncapsulation #aiux #uxai #mlux

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

https://www.designative.info/2025/12/16/workflow-encapsulation-in-human-agent-centered-design-from-doing-work-to-governing-outcomes/

I doubt that anything resembling genuine "artificial general intelligence" is within reach of current #AI tools. However, I think a weaker, but still quite valuable, type of "artificial general cleverness" is becoming a reality in various ways.

By "general cleverness", I mean the ability to solve broad classes of complex problems via somewhat ad hoc means. These means may be stochastic or the result of brute force computation; they may be ungrounded or fallible; and they may be either uninterpretable, or traceable back to similar tricks found in an AI's training data. So they would not qualify as the result of any true "intelligence". And yet, they can have a non-trivial success rate at achieving an increasingly wide spectrum of tasks, particularly when coupled with stringent verification procedures to filter out incorrect or unpromising approaches, at scales beyond what individual humans could achieve.

This results in the somewhat unintuitive combination of a technology that can be very useful and impressive, while simultaneously being fundamentally unsatisfying and disappointing - somewhat akin to how one's awe at an amazingly clever magic trick can dissipate (or transform to technical respect) once one learns how the trick was performed.

But perhaps this can be resolved by the realization that while cleverness and intelligence are somewhat correlated traits for humans, they are much more decoupled for AI tools (which are often optimized for cleverness), and viewing the current generation of such tools primarily as a stochastic generator of sometimes clever - and often useful - thoughts and outputs may be a more productive perspective when trying to use them to solve difficult problems.

Speaking to @arselectronica, Gilbert compared "use verb or noun"- style adventure games to black and white silent movies, expressing that making games like that now would feel similarly dated. https://www.pcgamer.com/games/adventure/monkey-island-creator-ron-gilbert-isnt-interested-in-returning-to-making-2d-adventure-games-when-were-all-dead-it-probably-wont-be-the-kind-of-thing-that-survives/?fbclid=IwdGRleAOmtK9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe2ohbh3xUxbU2jSmWroivyD3IwhS-mBs81hcDCEfICPO3N20SAhNviQO6EI4_aem_EDOal4_qIKAgPm3KcwQa-w #Gaming #VintageGaming #VideoGames #VintageVideoGames

#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 #UX #artificialintelligence #UserExperience #UserResearch #Metrics #ProductManagement

https://www.designative.info/2025/12/01/dual-evaluation-measuring-both-human-experience-and-agent-effectiveness/

Return to the year 2000 with classic multiplayer DOS games in your browser https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11/return-to-the-year-2000-with-classic-multiplayer-dos-games-in-your-browser/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null&fbclid=IwZnRzaAOSO8pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEewPV1EG56YiujTkujinJ2m703x6qqVT8A3zaDCQvpIHVTds33Zv_DsqYDzB8_aem_ZHSSo2O8N71TyBhrgfWLnQ