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The Grounding Layer: Why OutSystems Opening Up Changes Everything
Tools will change in six months. Models will change in three. What stays with you is the context you have built.
João Sousa
Apr 23
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The Grounding Layer: Why OutSystems Opening Up Changes Everything
Tools will change in six months. Models will change in three. What stays with you is the context you have built.
João Sousa
Apr 23


Design with AI, Not by AI: Lessons from a Full App Concept Experiment
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
Davide Arcoraci
Feb 4


Agent Experience (AX) Design: A Framework for Human–Agent Systems in OutSystems
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
Kristi Kitz
Jan 21


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
Davide Arcoraci
Dec 12, 2025

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