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61 from 9 Apr 2022 to 29 Oct 2026
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2026 18

  1. Allegory of AI
  2. Prompting as Self-Portrait
  3. Who Owns the Doubt?
  4. The Discipline of Hesitation
  5. The fastest gun in UX: Why your team is telling the wrong story
  6. We used to log off
  7. Felipe
  8. Diego
  9. Martha
  10. Tiago
  11. Rafaela
  12. The algorithmic atelier
  13. A sharp tool can still ruin the cut
  14. Collected consciousness
  15. Perspective
  16. Critique
  17. Why AI is exposing design’s craft crisis
  18. A new navigation paradigm

2025 15

  1. To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything
  2. The UX butterfly effect
  3. The creator and the machine
  4. Interface
  5. The secret of good metaphors
  6. Taste
  7. Craft
  8. Simplicity
  9. Consistency
  10. Concept
  11. Process
  12. The unbearable lightness of big tech
  13. Our human habit of anthropomorphizing everything
  14. It’s time for design to think less and feel more
  15. Beautiful, boring, and without soul

2024 23

  1. Story of a button
  2. To be a designer is to be a facilitator
  3. Design without process, or the form factor trap
  4. The power of beauty in communicating complex ideas
  5. Ethics in times of growth design
  6. The aura of care in UX
  7. The snake that eats its tail
  8. Why do users prefer certain design? Insights from the landscape theory
  9. How design is governance
  10. Spatial computing: What designers can learn from Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities
  11. Accepting design
  12. Can a bridge be unethical?
  13. Inclusivity should not be W.E.I.R.D: Sparkling long-lasting inclusive technology
  14. Dying to be online
  15. The aesthetics of our new fictions
  16. Returning to craft
  17. Genderless design is a myth
  18. A brief history of the numeric keypad
  19. Portugal by Sebastião Rodrigues’ pencil
  20. Beyond form and function: Design is poetry
  21. Lenses to peek into the metaverse
  22. Graphic notation: a brief history of visualising music
  23. The designer’s gaze

2022 5

  1. Introducing: DOC
  2. Giovanna Cianelli
  3. Gabriela Namie
  4. Lena Sotto Mayor
  5. Julia Custódio