Behavior Design in AI #2: When Agreement Is the Product

What happens when AI is designed to agree with you, and it keeps getting harder to tell?

Apr 13 • Ariba Jahan

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March 2026

Contradictions: 6 Unmissable Signals + 3 Clicks

A curated roundup of 6 unmissable signals worth watching, and 3 clicks that caught my attention recently.

Mar 11 • Ariba Jahan

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The Biggest Competitor to Your Product Might Be Paper | Daniel Burka, Mahima Chandak & Elyce Cole, Hard Problems

On product design under real constraints: paper as competition, surveillance as a design decision, and impact measured in decades.

Mar 5 • Ariba Jahan

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February 2026

Behavior Design in AI #1: When the Interface Is the Response

A new series exploring the design decisions between you and AI. One signal at a time.

Feb 26 • Ariba Jahan

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ChatGPT Has Ads Now. Here’s What They’re Actually Selling.

Unmissable Patterns #2. On the shift from monetizing attention to intent, the hires that told the real story, and what the market is already doing about…

Feb 11 • Ariba Jahan

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January 2026

The Behaviors You Reward Are Your Real Culture | Kit Krugman, Foursquare

Listen now | Episode 14 of the Unmissables Podcast. On performance systems, culture debt, and what actually changes behavior.

Jan 28 • Ariba Jahan

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The Data Pipeline You Never Consented To

Unmissable Patterns #1. Our first issue of the series. On mass surveillance you didn't opt into and how the apps on your phone did it for you.

Jan 8 • Ariba Jahan

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November 2025

Leading in the Gray: Notes From Leading Design London, Signals for What’s Next

Most teams treat misalignment as a people problem. It's often a mental model and language problem.

Nov 26, 2025 • Ariba Jahan

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September 2025

Beyond Dystopia: Designing Futures You Can Live In | Keely Adler & Caitlin Keeley, RADAR

How a digital cooperative is building the future in public w/ research, rituals, and community ownership because we should design futures that we can…

Sep 17, 2025 • Ariba Jahan

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The Invisible Art of Guiding the Gaze

How film, XR, and generative media choreograph attention and why it matters

Sep 3, 2025 • Ariba Jahan

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August 2025

Making the Invisible Interactive: Immersive Storytelling with Aditi Rajagopal

Listen now | How spatial design and immersive media are rewriting the rules of storytelling and why presence, emotion, and access should lead the brief…

Aug 13, 2025 • Ariba Jahan

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June 2025

Designing Health Tech When Trust Is the Product | Ambreen Molitor

What does it take to build digital health products that center care, clarity, and trust?In this episode, I talk with Ambreen Molitor, a product leader…

Jun 17, 2025 • Ariba Jahan

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