Beating the Bot: Staying Human in the Age of AI Recruitment
Automation has become the new gatekeeper of opportunity. This is a story for every candidate trying to stay visible, and every recruiter trying to stay human — a behavioural field guide for beating the bot without losing your voice.
User-Centred Design vs Business KPIs
When user needs and business metrics collide, design becomes a negotiation between empathy and efficiency. True alignment emerges only when KPIs measure value as users define it.
The Rise of Productivity Vibe-Coding
AI hasn’t just automated work — it’s automated the appearance of competence. When busyness becomes proof of progress, clarity becomes rebellion.
Descartes’ Discourse on the Method: Thinking as a System
Descartes turned thinking into a system: a methodical pursuit of clarity and truth through structured doubt. His “I think, therefore I am” remains the foundation of trust by design.
AI Alignment Problem
The AI Alignment Problem asks how we can ensure intelligent systems pursue goals consistent with human values and intentions, avoiding harm as capabilities expand.
Prompt Engineering Ethics
Prompt Engineering Ethics defines the moral boundaries of human–AI interaction — ensuring that intent, bias, and responsibility are consciously designed into every prompt.
Visibility of System Status: Feedback as trust
A usability heuristic principle that requires clear, timely feedback on what a system is doing and how it’s progressing, using communication to keep users informed and reduce uncertainty.
The Fear Behind the Label: What ADHD Diagnosis Might Take Away
A first-person field report from the edge of clarity — one professional’s honest account of how the pursuit of an ADHD diagnosis can trigger as much anxiety as relief, and why real progress begins with self-authored design.
We’ve Automated Belief — and Lost Trust
We fear that AI video will make it impossible to tell what’s real. The truth is harder to face — the machines aren’t breaking reality, we are.
Progress as a Product: Rethinking Digital Transformation
Digital transformation succeeds or fails on trust. When progress is designed for optics instead of empathy, internal users build workarounds faster than systems can catch them. Progress as a Product explores how UX Strategy restores belief by designing the experience of work itself.