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Design Practice

Agents, Cultureware, and the Human Network Behind the Machine Network

Longform edition for Signal+Static paid readers

Dec 2, 2025 • Marcel

The New UX Terrain: Agents, Cultureware, and the Human Network

A field report from DDX San Diego on the systems shaping design’s next era

Nov 26, 2025 • Marcel

On designing the interface for a new kind of cockpit.

Jul 19, 2025 • Marcel

Glossary from the Loop

Design terms for systems, signals, bodies, and behaviors (Updated as the loop evolves.)

Jul 19, 2025 • Marcel

Systems, Signals, and Scaffolding: UX in the Age of AI

A response from the DDX NYC Conference.

Jul 1, 2025 • Marcel

Cyborg Theory

Agents, Cultureware, and the Human Network Behind the Machine Network

Longform edition for Signal+Static paid readers

Dec 2, 2025 • Marcel

Cyborg - the word that left earth.

How a space medicine footnote became a theory, a life support system, an icon and us.

Oct 2, 2025 • Marcel

Luke's Hand: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

On Artificial Identity, Empathy Prosthetics, and the Dreaming Machine

Aug 9, 2025 • Marcel

Glossary from the Loop

Design terms for systems, signals, bodies, and behaviors (Updated as the loop evolves.)

Jul 19, 2025 • Marcel

Luke's Hand: Blade Runner

Watching Blade Runner with Cyborg Eyes

Jun 13, 2025 • Marcel

The Cyborgs Aren’t Coming

They're Already Here: Design, Identity, and the Already-Cyborg Condition

Jun 5, 2025 • Marcel

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