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          <title><![CDATA[Who Owns Your Design System?]]></title>
          <dc:creator>Osmond Arnesto</dc:creator>
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          <description><![CDATA[Maintaining a design system is a significant task, and how you structure the team that does that work may be helping or hurting your cause.]]></description>
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          <title><![CDATA[Specializing Fast: The Generalist's Edge]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Stepping into a brand-new project is a recurring challenge for any generalist, and the speed at which you bridge the gap between confusion and contribution is what ultimately defines your impact.]]></description>
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          <title><![CDATA[AI Expedition: Competitive UX Audit]]></title>
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          <title><![CDATA[What Pull Requests Reveal About Your Team]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Pull requests do more than improve code quality. They expose how a team shares context, distributes ownership, and makes decisions. By looking at patterns in PR size, review participation, and response time, teams can better understand their dynamics and values in practice.]]></description>
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          <dc:date>2026-04-08T10:00:00.000Z</dc:date>
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          <title><![CDATA[Consistency & Flexibility in Design Systems]]></title>
          <dc:creator>Sparkbox</dc:creator>
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          <description><![CDATA[The best design systems don't choose between consistency and flexibility — they make room for both.]]></description>
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          <title><![CDATA[Small Figma Habits That Make Big UX Impacts]]></title>
          <dc:creator>Angelica Cramer</dc:creator>
          <link>https://sparkbox.com/foundry/small_design_habits_that_make_big_ux_impacts</link>
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          <description><![CDATA[Great UX isn’t only the result of big research projects or major redesigns. It’s often shaped by the small habits designers practice every day.]]></description>
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          <dc:date>2026-03-25T10:00:00.000Z</dc:date>
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          <title><![CDATA[AI Expedition: RAG]]></title>
          <dc:creator>Sparkbox, Marissa Huysentruyt</dc:creator>
          <link>https://sparkbox.com/foundry/ai_expedition_mar_2026_rag_pipelines</link>
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          <description><![CDATA[If you try asking an LLM something specific about the content and data that matters to you every day, you may receive an answer even if the LLM doesn’t actually know. RAG workflows can reduce hallucinations and guesses by providing an LLM with contextually-specific data and expert know-how.]]></description>
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          <dc:date>2026-03-19T10:00:00.000Z</dc:date>
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          <title><![CDATA[UnConference Video Now Available]]></title>
          <dc:creator>Sparkbox</dc:creator>
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          <title><![CDATA[AI: Making Space for What Matters]]></title>
          <dc:creator>Natalie Lestini</dc:creator>
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          <description><![CDATA[Although AI is often seen as a tool for increasing speed, its real value lies in the space it creates for judgment, collaboration, and intentional work.]]></description>
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          <dc:date>2026-03-02T10:00:00.000Z</dc:date>
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          <title><![CDATA[AI Expedition: Terminology]]></title>
          <dc:creator>Sparkbox, Marissa Huysentruyt</dc:creator>
          <link>https://sparkbox.com/foundry/ai_expedition_feb_2026_terminology_models_agents_and_tools</link>
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          <description><![CDATA[What’s the difference between agents, models, and tools? How do they all work together?]]></description>
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          <dc:date>2026-02-18T10:00:00.000Z</dc:date>
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