Human x Intelligent
by Madalena Costa
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In a world where technology transforms faster than our environment, we can make sense of it. Human × Intelligent invites you to pause, think and design the future with intention.
We explore the intersection of humanity and intelligence: how leaders, creators and systems can co-create meaningful impact.
Conversations, frameworks and ideas that unite purpose, ethics and innovation.
The future of product is human × intelligent.
Episodes
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- How to use AI without losing your creative voice | Miguel · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 35Send us an email! What can AI actually teach a creative person? I asked Miguel, a multimedia designer and visual artist who moves between client work and his own art. Miguel…
- The Bug AI Couldn't Solve (A Colleague Did in 10 Seconds) | Liliana Pereira · 18 min · Season 3 Episode 34Send us an email! Backend engineer Liliana Pereira shares how she went from wanting to be an archaeologist to building systems that move data at scale. She tells the story of the…
- Will AI replace product managers? Why shipping 10x faster doesn't mean 10x more winners | Rich Mironov · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 33Send us an email! If AI makes it faster to write code, what happens to the product manager's job? I asked Rich Mironov, who has worked in software product management for 40 years…
- Cognitive surrender: what we lose when AI thinks first | Toju Duke · 1 h 12 min · Season 3 Episode 32Send us an email! Toju Duke has worked in AI long before the hype. In this episode of Human x Intelligent, she explains why so many of us handed our judgment to AI without asking…
- What Should You Delegate to AI (and What Should Stay Human)? · 5 min · Season 3 Episode 31Send us an email! What should you hand to AI and what should you keep for yourself? Human x Intelligent is back!! In this solo episode, I explain the delay (imagine a dinner…
- Where does your judgment still matter? - Season 3 Premiere · 9 min · Season 3 Episode 30Send us an email! The more people trusted AI on a task, the less critical thinking they said they did on it. Season 3 of Human x Intelligent starts here, with an eight-minute…
- Are you using AI or is AI using you? | Ricardo Luiz | Season finale · 48 min · Season 2 Episode 29Send us an email! We talk a lot on this show about what AI can do. This one's about what it can quietly take, if you let it. Ricardo Luiz has spent over twenty years building…
- Is AI making us dumber? The science, the warning and what to do about it · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 28Send us an email! You've heard the productivity pitch. AI makes you faster. AI makes you more efficient. AI makes your work better. But what if it's also making you worse at…
- From prototype to production: Why building reliable Agentic AI is still so hard | Joana Mesquita · 44 min · Season 2 Episode 27Send us an email! Building an AI agent has never been easier. But getting it to production? That's where most projects quietly die. In this episode of Human X Intelligent, host…
- How to use NotebookLM to do real product research (with the prompts) · 27 min · Season 2 Episode 26Send us an email! NotebookLM can do in an afternoon what used to take a research team a week, if you know how to prompt it. In this episode of Human × Intelligent, we walk…
- AI doesn't fix broken products. It amplifies them | Michelle Brito · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 25Send us an email! AI won’t fix your product. In many cases, it makes things worse. In this conversation, Michelle Brito explains why most companies are getting AI adoption wrong…
- The interface trap: Why your AI adoption is failing (and how to fix it) | Kaisa Martiskainen · 29 min · Season 2 Episode 24Send us an email! Is your team actually using AI, or are they just playing with it? In this episode of Human X Intelligent, host Madalena Costa sits down with Kaisa Martiskainen…
- The future of UX: design that knows you better than you know yourself | Joana Cerejo · 29 min · Season 2 Episode 23Send us an email! What does it mean to truly anticipate a user and not just what they'll click next...but what they're trying to become? In Episode 19 of Human × Intelligent…
- Is AI fixing your teams or just making the cracks more visible? | PART II | Hugo Froes · 24 min · Season 2 Episode 22Send us an email! In Part II of this conversation, Madalena Costa and Hugo Froes move from diagnosis to direction, exploring what conscious AI adoption actually looks like inside…
- AI didn't break your company. It just exposed it. | Hugo Froes · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 21Send us an email! Is AI fixing your company or just exposing what was already broken? Discover how AI is accelerating organizational dysfunction, reshaping product teams and…
- Cognitive debt: are AI tools making you worse at thinking? · 17 min · Season 2 Episode 20Send us an email! Cognitive debt is what happens when AI tools do your thinking instead of supporting it and the research is now proving it costs you more than you realise. In…
- Is AI replacing UX designers? (The reality no one talks about) | Bruno Figueiredo · 26 min · Season 2 Episode 19Send us an email! Is AI redefining UX design or replacing it? In this episode of Human × Intelligent, Madalena Costa sits down with Bruno Figueiredo, founder of UXLx and one of…
- The end of the chatbot? Designing AI interfaces that act and not just answer · 20 min · Season 2 Episode 18Send us an email! The End of the Chatbox? Designing AI interfaces that act, not just answer In this episode of Human × Intelligent, Madalena Costa explores one of the biggest…
- Figma → Claude → Figma: The AI workflow product designers should know · 19 min · Season 2 Episode 17Send us an email! This episode was originally going to be about something else, but a conversation over the weekend reminded me of a workflow I use quite often when developing…
- AI adoption in teams: The #1 sign you’re moving too fast (trust breaks here) | Krystel Leal · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 16Send us an email! 'Most AI pilots don’t fail in the demo. They fail inside the workflow.' In this episode of Human × Intelligent, Madalena Costa speaks with Krystel Leal, a…
