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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!

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.

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.

It’s not fair to compare a state-of-the-art-AI-assisted proprietary tool from a trillion-dollar corporation with a hand-coded free and open tool from a small not-for-profit cooperative.
(The latter works.)
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/17…

The Github website is extremely slow on Safari · community · Discussion #170758
Select Topic Area Bug Body Over the past few months, Github has been getting slower and slower on Safari. It has now reached a point where it is unusable. Displaying any pull request with more than...

Lessons from Biophilic Design: Rethinking Affective Interaction Design in Built Environments
Shruti Rao, Judith Good, Hamed Alavi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19867 https://

Lessons from Biophilic Design: Rethinking Affective Interaction Design in Built Environments
The perspectives of affective interaction in built environments are largely overlooked and instead dominated by affective computing approaches that view emotions as "static", computable states to be detected and regulated. To address this limitation, we interviewed architects to explore how biophilic design -- our deep-rooted emotional connection with nature -- could shape affective interaction design in smart buildings. Our findings reveal that natural environments facilitate self-directed emo…