Matthew RosenquistFounder & CISO Advisor, Cybersecurity Insights · CISO, Cybersecurity Strategist, & Industry Advisor

Designing Tech for Humans

1 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker argues that contemporary technology is created without considering human cognitive patterns, leading to a constant need for users to adapt to ever‑evolving, foreign systems. The speaker contends that humans, as a highly intelligent species, should instead guide the design of technology, aligning systems with natural human functions and cognitive strengths. This human‑centered approach is presented as a necessary, though controversial, shift from technology‑first design to designs that serve human intelligence and behavior.

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is technology wasn't built with the human in mind. Our systems were built to solve other problems, and it just so happened that humans are the ones using it. But the, the people who are designing it, the, the source of the design wasn't to actually move with the natural functionings of how we are. And so there's this constant sense of us having to adapt to this foreign technology that keeps evolving, and we are trying to figure out. But in reality, there's a whole new approach that can be taken and I believe should be taken, which is designing systems to match the natural human patterns because humans are not stupid. We are one of, let's say, probably the most cognitively intelligent species. We design these systems and we have more intelligence than all the artificial intelligence put together. And I believe, controversial but always will, but we need to use that to adapt the systems to us.