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Santa Cruz Logo: How Design Shaped Skateboarding History - Indieground Design
Santa Cruz's amazing logo and graphic design choices are the key ingredients to their huge success, propelling a small brand to worldwide fame!

If you swap out 'company' for 'open source community' you might have a good image for OSS UX work! https://mastodon.cloud/@designthinkingcomic/114935728048502199

Design Thinking! Comic (@designthinkingcomic@mastodon.cloud)
Attached: 1 image Product Design.

Axiomatic Choice and the Decision-Evaluation Paradox
Ben Abramowitz, Nicholas Mattei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21836 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21836

Axiomatic Choice and the Decision-Evaluation Paradox
We introduce a framework for modeling decisions with axioms that are statements about decisions, e.g., ethical constraints. Using our framework we define a taxonomy of decision axioms based on their structural properties and demonstrate a tension between the use of axioms to make decisions and the use of axioms to evaluate decisions which we call the Decision-Evaluation Paradox. We argue that the Decision-Evaluation Paradox arises with realistic axiom structures, and the paradox illuminates why…

Licht und Dashcam am Rad
https://www.spiegel.de/tests/fahrrad-zubehoer/dashcam-garmin-varia-vue-und-varia-rct716-im-test-das-taugt-der-videobeweis-fuer-fahrraeder-a…

Garmin-Leuchten mit Dashcam im Test: Das taugt der Videobeweis für Fahrräder
Garmin kombiniert Fahrradlampen mit Videokameras und Radar. Das soll für mehr Sicherheit sorgen und nach einem Unfall helfen, die Schuldfrage zu klären. Im Test mussten dafür Fahrräder zu Boden gehen.

«erases the history&work of the people who quietly labored to create better digital services for the public; in their place, it proposes that one man alone can define “design” for the country. And we find that new definition in the way the site’s constructed: it is digital design intended for the privileged few, one that actively excludes people who don’t conform to a specific, discriminatory definition of “eligible.”»
Great piece by @… on the notional design studio
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-notional-design-studio/

AOC:
"If the Government shuts down, they are going to act like it wasn't their decision;
it is their decision."
https://bsky.app/profile/iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social/post/3lzue5w327k2e

Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social)
AOC: "If the Government shuts down, they are going to act like it wasn't their decision; it is their decision."

Ol' Clarence T. says that prior SCOTUS decisions are not binding, that they are precedent that is not controlling.
OK.
That effectively means that no SCOTUS decision is actually final, that all SCOTUS decisions are merely provisional and may be silently reversed by simply refusing to acknowledge that that case has to be honored as binding precedent.
This, in turn, means that SCOTUS never really is finished with a case, even after it renders a decision.
That, in tu…

Interesting new research published by architecture practice Hawkins\Brown on how the design of university buildings shapes wider engagement of a diverse student body
https://www.hawkinsbrown.com/conversations

Does design play a role in encouraging wider engagement and better attainment at university? | Hawkins\Brown
We explored this and more in our latest Canteen Conversation

I feel this very deeply.
(Original title: (DT! comic) A.I. FOMO can FO)
https://designthinkingcomic.substack.com/p/dt-comic-ai-fomo-can-fo

(DT! comic) A.I. FOMO can FO
DT! for today

Klingt ja simpel, aber schon erstaunlich, dass Instrumente nicht angepasst sind…
When surgical tools don’t fit: how gender bias in design puts female surgeons at risk
https://theconversation.com/when-surgical-tools-…

When surgical tools don’t fit: how gender bias in design puts female surgeons at risk
Why surgical device design is changing to match the diversity of today’s operating rooms.