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5 Considerations on How AI Rewrites the Rules of User Interaction in Complex Systems
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
davidearcoraci
Dec 12, 2025
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Accelerated Focus Awarded 2023 OutSystems Partner of the Year
We won the 2023 OutSystems Partner of the Year in the America's Closed Deals Champion category, a huge honour and testament to our team.

Travis Cavanagh
Feb 15, 2024


I Traveled 126 Days in 2022
How working remotely helped me live a year of adventure! At the beginning of 2022, in perhaps an overreaction to two years of lockdown, I...

Kristi Kitz
Jan 10, 2023


Is AutoNumber: Set it to No for Static Entities
When you create a Static Entity in OutSystems the default configuration for the Id attribute has the Is AutoNumber property set to Yes. ...

Greg Whitten
Oct 12, 2022


Entering a New Workplace as an "Older" Worker
Why having age diversity in the workforce is an incredible thing In early 2022, we knew as a family that we would return to our home...

Christine Stewart
Sep 15, 2022


MVP Development 101
The advantages of developing software using an MVP approach Developing software rapidly or iteratively rather than following a...

Jason Stearns
Aug 4, 2022


Bulk E-mail Best Practices
Design considerations for sending bulk e-mails in a transaction. Scenario Say we have an extensive list of users, all of whom need to be...

Kristi Kitz
Jul 7, 2022


Don't Leave For Tomorrow What You Can Do Today!
A practical approach to OutSystems project documentation In the OutSystems Developers community, many of you are, or were, somehow...

João Sousa
Jun 23, 2022


Designing Better Forms in OutSystems
Follow these 9 best practices to elevate your form game! Forms are ubiquitous – they’re in almost every app we work on. Though not the...

Kristi Kitz
Jun 2, 2022


Lifetime — A Teams Setup That Will Make You Proud
Leverage teams to effectively govern your OutSystems factory. In the last article I wrote, Lifetime — Create a Governance Model that will...

João Sousa
May 19, 2022


Waking Timers in Transactions
A little knowledge about how timer jobs run helps us write better code. Scenario Imagine we have a button that calls an action. That...

Kristi Kitz
May 5, 2022


Lifetime — Create a Governance Model That Will Make You Proud
Having a Governance Model, as simple as it can be, to manage an OutSystems Factory it is always better than not having any. This means...

João Sousa
Apr 20, 2022


Connecting With Loved Ones Using OutSystems
The Problem Make a list of people who would worry about you if you were in the hospital. How long is this list? Who is on this list? How...

Julian Hernandez
Apr 20, 2022


OutSystems Tags
Have you ever been building in OutSystems and wished they had some of your favorite HTML elements in the list of widgets? Tags like h1...

Greg Whitten
Oct 8, 2019


Filtering aggregates in OutSystems when the 'With or Without' option is used
Sometimes you'll have a join in your aggregate that uses the 'With or Without' option. For those familiar with SQL this is an outer join...

Greg Whitten
Sep 2, 2019

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