Can an Entire Application Concept Be Generated by AI? Short answer: Yes. 
 Longer answer: Yes.. if you treat AI as a collaborator, not a shortcut. Over the past year, many design teams have experimented with AI tools to generate UI screens, layouts, and even entire flows. In most cases, the first outcome is a visually pleasant but shallow, something nice to look at, yet detached from real user needs. This article documents a different kind of experiment:
Can an entire applica

Designing for AI Agents: Focusing on the How Recently, my colleague wrote about how AI is changing user interaction in complex systems. You can read that article here: https://www.acceleratedfocus.com/post/5-considerations-on-how-ai-rewrites-the-rules-of-user-interaction-in-complex-systems This article picks up where that one left off to focus on the how. Specifically, how we think about designing for AI agents inside real business processes. Not superficial chatbots, but ac

Over the past months, I have had the opportunity to design AI features for a complex enterprise application built on the OutSystems Platform . What began as a technical exploration quickly became something far more profound: a realization that AI doesn’t just add new capabilities to a product, it transforms the way humans and digital systems interact. 

 As AI begins to permeate workflows, interfaces, and decision-making, we are not simply adjusting our design toolkit. We are

How I used OutSystems’ new Workbench to build a tiny one-page app that talks to an AI agent and deploys apps across our pipeline  while keeping things governable, observable, and actually fun.

Use AI tools like Amazon Q Developer to generate documentation for undocumented OutSystems apps. Start by extracting the source code, then prompt AI for app overviews, technical docs, user stories, and maintenance notes. Regular AI-powered updates keep docs fresh. Tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini also work. This turns mystery code into clear, maintainable systems and builds a culture of documentation.