Human x Intelligent
In a world where technology transforms faster than our environment, we can make sense of it. Human × Intelligent invites you to pause, think and design the future with intention.
We explore the intersection of humanity and intelligence: how leaders, creators and systems can co-create meaningful impact.
Conversations, frameworks and ideas that unite purpose, ethics and innovation.
The future of product is human × intelligent.
Episodes
20 episodes
Cognitive debt: are AI tools making you worse at thinking?
Cognitive debt is what happens when AI tools do your thinking instead of supporting it and the research is now proving it costs you more than you realise.In this episode of Human × Intelligent, I walk through what the science actually sa...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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17:23
Is AI replacing UX designers? (The reality no one talks about) | Bruno Figueiredo
Is AI redefining UX design or replacing it?In this episode of Human × Intelligent, Madalena Costa sits down with Bruno Figueiredo, founder of UXLx and one of ...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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25:39
The end of the chatbot? Designing AI interfaces that act and not just answer
The End of the Chatbox? Designing AI interfaces that act, not just answerIn this episode of Human × Intelligent,
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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20:21
Figma → Claude → Figma: The AI workflow product designers should know
This episode was originally going to be about something else, but a conversation over the weekend reminded me of a workflow I use quite often when developing and designing applications.So instead, I decided to share one
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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19:14
AI adoption in teams: The #1 sign you’re moving too fast (trust breaks here) | Krystel Leal
'Most AI pilots don’t fail in the demo. They fail inside the workflow.'In this episode of Human × Intelligent, Madalena Costa speaks with Krystel Leal, a fractional AI deployment lead working...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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36:43
AI cosplay - When intelligence becomes a performance | Krasi Bozhinkova
In this episode, I’m joined by Krasi Bozhinkova to explore AI cosplay, the shift from AI as a tool to AI as a performed intelligence, where emotion, presence and perceived personhood become more persuasive than proof itself.This convers...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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30:00
The agentic leader: how leadership changes when your 'team' is a mix of humans and agents
Episode 11 (season finale) - The agentic leader: How organizational design changes when your team is a mix of humans and agentsAI is no longer just transforming products. It’s transforming organizations, leadership and professi...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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6:38
The verifiability gap: How trust survives when systems act without asking
As AI-powered products become more autonomous, intelligence is no longer the hard part. Trust is.In this episode of Human × Intelligent, Madalena explores the verifiability ga...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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8:02
The interface of intent: How humans stay in control when systems act
AI systems no longer just respond. They plan, decide and act and often without asking.In this episode of Human × Intelligent, we explore a critical question for the age of agentic AI: How do humans stay in control once sy...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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6:54
The multi-agent organization: From agentic drift to systemic coherence
Autonomy scales intelligence.But without coordination, it creates conflict.In this episode of Human × Intelligent, we explore the shift from single-model AI to multi-agent systems and why intelligence at scale starts to...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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8:12
Autonomy is not freedom: How intelligent systems should act
Autonomy is no longer optional in intelligent systems.But without clear boundaries, it quickly turns from helpful to harmful.In this episode of Human × Intelligent, we explore what autonomy means in product design, why it’s ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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7:39
The age of agency: When products start to think and act
Products are changing. They no longer just react to user input or display information.They initiate actions.They make decisions.They influence behaviour.In this episode of Human × Intelligent, we explore ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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7:52
The architecture of attention: why clarity begins before action
Every product communicates something before a user ever takes an action.Some products feel clear the moment you open them.Others feel confused, even when the design looks polished and 'correct'.The difference isn’t aesthetics....
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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7:42
Alignment: How to design systems that stay on course (PART 2)
Part 2 of Episode 4 moves from theory to application. If Part 1 explained drift, Part 2 explains how to prevent it.In this episode:> the five principles of system alignment> how to stabilise incentives to avoid uni...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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10:10
Alignment: Why teams, products & habits lose alignment and how to fix it (PART 1)
AI does not fail because it is powerful. It fails because it becomes powerful in the wrong direction. In this episode we break down one of the most misunderstood concepts in AI and product building, alignment, the gap between what we intend int...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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6:05
Attention engineering: How to focus, think and create in a distracted tech world
In episode 1 we explored why clarity is the real measurement of intelligence. In episode 2 we learned that intelligence does not evolve in straight lines, it evolves in loops. But loops do not start on their own. Something has to tell the syste...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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11:57
Broken loops: The real reason teams, products & careers stop improving (PART 2)
In part 1 we explored how humans and AI learn through rhythm, the cycles of action, feedback, adjustment and explanation. Now we zoom out.In part 2 we move from theory to product reality, how loops appear inside the tools we use every da...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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12:37
How humans & AI learn: The feedback loop skill every tech professional needs (PART 1)
Growth does not happen in straight lines, it happens in loops. In part 1 of thinking in loops we explore how humans and intelligent systems learn, adapt and evolve through feedback, attention and rhythm.We start by breaking the illusion ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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8:39
The age of synthetic clarity: How AI changes the way you think (and make decisions)
In the age of AI the smartest product in the world still fails if no one trusts it. This is why clarity, not intelligence, has become the real measure of a great product.In this opening episode of Human × Intelligent Madalena Costa explo...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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8:47
What happens when intelligence stops feeling human
What happens when intelligence stops feeling human? In this short opening manifesto, I share the origin of Human × Intelligent, the spark, the frustration and the vision behind a movement built for the next generation of think...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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2:34
