A transmission on cyborg theory, speculative design, and what it means to lead in the age of intelligent machines.
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Signal+Static operates from a single premise: we are already entangled with our tools. The question isn't whether technology shapes us, it does, it always has, but whether we're paying enough attention to how.
The publication sits at the intersection of UX practice, cyborg theory, AI, and organizational design. It's written for designers, product leaders, and anyone who thinks seriously about what it means to build human systems inside technological ones.
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A live field dispatch built during the week — session-by-session coverage with notes pulled straight from the floor, threaded by idea rather than schedule.
Open the dispatch →Signal+Static will be covering SXSW as official press. Seven days of innovation programming, and what it means to route a network of ideas in real time.
Five lessons from fifty years: Erik Spiekermann at DDX San Diego on the physics of design infrastructure, and what remains when hype is stripped away.
A crushable delight. On Annalee Newitz's novella about robot citizenship, and what it illuminates about personhood, labor, and the systems that define both.
A deep dive into DDX San Diego and the UX industry's turn from fear to fluency: from app-thinking to agent-thinking, from artifact design to system stewardship.
A field report from DDX San Diego. Design is moving from screens to systems, from apps to agents, using relationships as control loops.
On designing the interface for a new kind of cockpit, and what a test pilot taught about fluency, embodiment, and when not to innovate.
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