Gabriel Mugar

Research and design for learning, collaboration, and storytelling.

[Gabriel Mugar @gmugar]

Here are 3 approaches I take to reposition my expertise and authority in the design research process. Thanks @FastCompany for publishing this piece! https://t.co/S5acOQKezv

[Gabriel Mugar @gmugar]

Remember when teachers panicked about Wikipedia?Now they're panicking about AI. But here's the thing: they figured out Wikipedia. Stopped banning it, started teaching it.
The same playbook could work for AI. https://t.co/7WFL8wsj44

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Death Valley National Park is experiencing its first major superbloom in a decade as of March/April 2026, driven by record winter rainfall (1.7 – 2.5+ inches) that transformed the desert landscape with vibrant carpets of yellow, pink, and purple flowers.
https://t.co/YgaHskYSlM

[Gabriel Mugar @gmugar]

Companies that thrive in the AI era won’t be the ones with the smallest teams. They’ll be the ones that figure out how to preserve cognitive diversity through deliberate human touchpoints and more intentional use of AI as a critical lens https://t.co/3husLT26Ry

[Gabriel Mugar @gmugar]

@SpeakerJohnson How about that 40 billion to Argentina. Thant could’ve solved some budget issues

[Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos]

Wow, Europe can now hire 1/3 of a top AI researcher.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

This is how the media should handle the clown show that is @VP / @JDVance

[Gabriel Mugar @gmugar]

@JaneotN lol New Hampshire

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!)

Receipts:
https://t.co/YbS3A8fz5p

[Gabriel Mugar @gmugar]

@odannyboy There are some in tech who champion building for human value but they’re met with pushback from those who can only understand building for incremental metric gains . The complexity and nuance of building for human value is an effort that many avoid.

[Gabriel Mugar @gmugar]

Here are 3 approaches I take to reposition my expertise and authority in the design research process. Thanks @FastCompany for publishing this piece! https://t.co/S5acOQKezv

[Gabriel Mugar @gmugar]

@mulegirl 2/ I could see this being useful in later stages of ideation but not convinced it’s useful for understanding human behavior at earlier stages of product dev. Human behavior will always create variables that haven’t been captured in training data

[Gabriel Mugar @gmugar]

@mulegirl 1/ Looking at the screenshots for synthetic users and it seems like a chatbot interface for survey research to test new product ideas. So instead of getting numbers to validate your idea you get words that represent aggregate behaviors

[Will Oremus @WillOremus]

“Content moderation” was once industry jargon. Now it’s a front line in the culture war and the subject of multiple potential Supreme Court cases.

Here’s my attempt to trace the story of how that happened, from 1996 to today, in 3,000 words. https://t.co/p3NfqlnfEx

[Olga Boїchak🇺🇦 @olgarithmic]

His ideas were foundational to our understanding of the role technology plays in society. It might be that every social scientist has engaged with them at some point. "Nothing becomes real to the point of not needing a network in which to upkeep its existence”.
RIP Bruno Latour

[New York Times Opinion @nytopinion]

Medicalizing mental health doesn’t work very well if your goal is to address the underlying causes of distress, @_danielle_carr says. “It does, however, work really well if you’re trying to come up with a solution everybody in power can agree on.” https://t.co/DCIdzFSTbF

[Gabriel Mugar @gmugar]

UX Magazine republished my article on reimagining expertise in design. So glad that this is resonating with so many people.

[UX Magazine @uxmag]

3 shifts for your design practice that can help you reimagine how you show up as an expert and decision maker from Gabriel Mugar, Ph.D., UX Research Lead at Meta, in @uxmag — https://t.co/7EdWz7pntc #ux #cx #decisionmaking

[Gabriel Mugar @gmugar]

Get your metrics out of my innovation

[Gabriel Mugar @gmugar]

Quarterly user research reports don’t build empathy between designers and people who use their products …just saying…

[Gabriel Mugar @gmugar]

Just like ⁦@marcrebillet⁩ says, you gotta show up if you want to get it done
https://t.co/0F9zwjtb2x

[Gabriel Mugar @gmugar]

Jerome Powell: “You have two job vacancies essentially for every person actively seeking a job, and that has led to a real imbalance in wage negotiating," Well there you have it folks, logic of shareholder economics blatantly being anti-labor https://t.co/FFrSTkeEjc