Guardian of an Intent. Product leadership. UX. Content design. Product marketing. Systems thinking and civic tech. Founder UX conference: http://outcomeconf.com
At the early stage of any work, I am most curious about:
—Why we work—why an org exists, how they hire, why they work
—What are their operating principles if any, for what goals
—What those goals mean to different people, functions, and segments
—What happens to our work after we quit a product or org? Who cares?
| Product management | All things product management for business design, org design, and technology design. |
| UX | User experience, interactions, design |
| System thinking | A systems perspective into how we plan our digital products for team design, alignment and incentives, leadership and standards, frameworks and models, and the foundations of designing scalable products |
| Content strategy | Content strategy, content design, UX writing, and content-driven design for operations and supply chain. |
A conversation between two museum objects, overheard in gallery 4
https://www.mucodi.co/insights/blog/a-conversation-between-two-museum-objects-overheard-in-gallery-4
MuCoDi publishes blog posts on museums' digital and technology trends and opportnities, their present challenges in operations or technology, and how technology and system thinking can make museums prepared for their future goals.
"Design did not show up for work today"
A dialogue between *Design* and an *Org*: https://www.designcriticalthinking.com/design-did-not-show-up-for-work-today-by-vinish-garg/
A dialogue between 'design' and an 'organization'.
The state of design in 2026 is measured in proximity—how close we have stayed to the collectives and how closely we see the consequences of our decisions. The question is whether the future will recognize what we built with care and love. Did we?
https://www.designcriticalthinking.com/design-did-not-show-up-for-work-today-by-vinish-garg/
Thanks to Kevin Richard and Design & Critical Thinking for the invite to contribute to this project.
The Gut Decision Matrix: When to Trust Instinct and Intuition
"Instinct and intuition both operate below conscious awareness, which is why they’re often lumped together as “gut feelings”, but they arise from different mechanisms and serve different purposes."
The Gut Decision Matrix helps you interpret your automatic responses before acting on them. Next time you experience fear, attraction, suspicion, or confidence, take a moment to ask yourself these two questions: Is this instinct or intuition? Are you in immediate danger or is this a more complex situation?
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7 is good. :)
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The Future of Museums Narrative—Nineteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum
https://onmuseums.com/2026-conference By The Inclusive Museum, Common Ground Research Networks
2026 is the best year for UX—to make real impact at work.
Think of the modern prompt-based design tools—isn't it such a big door to get our foot in, and make the products more usable and useful? Look at the stories, apprehensions, and speculation over the AI adoption in digital products.
How on earth is it a threat to UX?
Let's not associate our own personal principles or capabilities with the *state of UX*—disguised as "UX is dead" kind of statements. This is irresponsible UX on our part.
Had an uncharacteristically boring day today—and thought of checking Claude. I started as:
"Assuming that I am AI and you are human, can we chat? I just want to see if it changes anything. So, you assume that this whole message is written by AI and you reply as a human. Will you do it?"
It did. And I realized that it was trap. Not a great way to wrap up the day.
https://claude.ai/share/8ef1ef75-afff-436a-a50d-0519e8e1364e
Third international conference: EDDY2026
"We welcome contributions from both academics and practitioners on any of the following topics, in relation to digital democracy: online deliberation, liquid democracy, the public sphere, apps and tools for online decision-making, machine learning, crowdsourcing, the digital divide, participatory budgeting, computational social choice, digital identities, social media, popular will, secrecy vs. publicity of votes and opinions."
https://www.eddy-network.eu/in-person-events/eddy-2026-vienna
Aims & Scope of the Conference In recent years, digital democracy has become a subject of academic research and is being put into practice around the world. However, the scientific investigations and practices of digital democracy are currently still living mostly in separate universes. The aim
