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Filing: Apple sues Di Liu, a former senior product designer who worked on the Vision Pro, for allegedly stealing trade secrets and taking them to Snap (Ethan Baron/SiliconValley.com)
https://www.siliconvalley.com/2025/06/30/apple-san-jos…

Apple claims San Jose engineer stole trade secrets, took them to rival
Allegations of theft of Apple’s trade secrets in recent years have led to criminal and civil court cases.

Sources: the FTC has opened an in-depth investigation of SoftBank's $6.5B acquisition of Ampere, which could take a year or more to conclude (Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/soft…

SoftBank’s Ampere Deal Now Faces a More In-Depth Review by FTC
SoftBank Group Corp.’s acquisition of semiconductor designer Ampere Computing LLC is facing a potentially lengthy probe by the US government.

Requirements for Active Assistance of Natural Questions in Software Architecture
Diogo Lemos, Ademar Aguiar, Neil B. Harrison
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23898

Requirements for Active Assistance of Natural Questions in Software Architecture
Natural questions are crucial to shaping key architectural decisions and preserving architectural knowledge. They arise organically during the architectural design process, often resulting from the existing architectural experience of the designer and the distinctive characteristics of the system being designed. However, natural questions are often mismanaged or ignored, which can lead to architectural drift, knowledge loss, inefficient resource use, or poor understandability of the system's ar…

Designer Heavy Fermions in Incommensurate $\bf{Nb_3Cl_8}$/Graphene van der Waals Heterostructures
Yuchen Gao, Wenjie Zhou, Fan Yang, Zhijie Ma, Hansheng Xu, Xinyue Huang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Youguo Shi, Yu Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21837

Designer Heavy Fermions in Incommensurate $\bf{Nb_3Cl_8}$/Graphene van der Waals Heterostructures
Heavy fermion systems, traditionally realized in rare-earth compounds with limited tunability, have hindered systematic exploration of correlated quantum phenomena. Here, we introduce a general strategy for engineering heavy fermions in incommensurate van der Waals heterostructures by coupling a Mott insulator (Nb$_3$Cl$_8$) with itinerant electrons (from monolayer graphene), circumventing strict lattice-matching requirements. Through magnetotransport and slave spin mean-field calculations, we …

Current status: taking a screenshot of a Javascript popup, then using AI to convert the image to text. All so I can copy a number out of a web page that some terrible UX designer decided to not present just as simple text on the page.

@… Si jamais (pas en france ni en français) Blender foundation recherchent un•e UX designer
https://mastodon.social/@Blender/11458071…

"I do not need the one magic machine that claims to solve all my issues and then makes me jump through conversational hoops to get a mediocre result. That is actually the opposite of what I need."
On chatbots as a bad design paradigm
(Original title: “ChatBot” is bad design)
https://t…

"ChatBot" is bad design
As anyone who has ever seen anything I have created knows: I am not a designer. So take my reasoning and thinking here with a grain of salt. I do have many designers amongst my friends and I do think that a lot of software engineering falls within the domain of design to a certain […]

Jony and Sam are both suddenly real quiet; wonder how their honeymoon is going
Oh
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/23/iyo-vs-io-openai-and-jony-ive-get-sued/
*Nelson laugh*
h/t @…

Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued
In May, legendary Apple designer Jony Ive hooked up with OpenAI to announce an unspecified gadget. [WSJ, archive] To promote this complete vaporware, OpenAI released a video of Sam Altman and Ive b…

My wife is working with a designer at her job to re-do their website. They asked for her to email the logo since they “were unable to access the file from the current website”.
So I look, and it's just an embedded SVG, which I pull in 3 seconds. 🤔

My wife is working with a designer at her job to re-do their website. They asked for her to email the logo since they “were unable to access the file from the current website”.
So I look, and it's just an embedded SVG, which I pull in 3 seconds. 🤔

Conceptual Modelling for Life Sciences Based on Systemist Foundations
R. Lukyanenko, O. Pastor, V. C. Storey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18742 https://

Conceptual Modelling for Life Sciences Based on Systemist Foundations
All aspects of our society, including the life sciences, need a mechanism for people working within them to represent the concepts they employ to carry out their research. For the information systems being designed and developed to support researchers and scientists in conducting their work, conceptual models of the relevant domains are usually designed as both blueprints for a system being developed and as a means of communication between the designer and developer. Most conceptual modelling c…

I think that "chatbot" is a bad design paradigm for most problems. It's actually the refusal to to design work.
https://tante.cc/2025/06/19/chatbot-is-bad-design/

"ChatBot" is bad design
As anyone who has every seen anything I created knows: I am not a designer. So take my reasoning and thinking here with a grain of salt. I do have many designers amongst my friends and I do think that a lot of software engineering falls within the domain of design to a certain degree. […]

The designer of this hotel charging outlet decided to orient the outlets so they would be "right side up".

Smashing! 😻
https://smashingconf.com/freiburg-2025/speakers/matthias-ott

Matthias Ott — Freiburg in Germany, September 8–11.
Matthias is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer. He teaches interface prototyping at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design and runs workshops on modern web design, design engineering, and prototyping. He writes Own Your Web, a newsletter about personal websites, and blogs about design, development, CSS, the open web, and more on matthiasott.com.

I havent seen any regular or junior designer roles in ages.... it surely is my bad sources.... right?.... right???
#gamedesign #gamedev #gamedevjob

Designer polyradical nanographenes with strong spin entanglement and perturbation resilience via Clar's goblet extension
En Li, Manish Kumar, Xinnan Peng, Tong Shen, Diego Soler-Polo, Yu Wang, Yu Teng, Haoyu Zhang, Shaotang Song, Jishan Wu, Pavel Jelinek, Jiong Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05181

Designer polyradical nanographenes with strong spin entanglement and perturbation resilience via Clar's goblet extension
Polyradical nanographenes featuring strong spin entanglement and robust many-body spin states against external magnetic perturbations not only enable the exploration of correlated quantum magnetism at the molecular scale, but also constitute promising candidates for developing molecular qubits with chemical tunability and building scalable quantum networks. Here, we employed a predictive design strategy to achieve the on-surface synthesis of two homologues of Clar goblet, C62H22 and C76H26, via…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new/
[4/4]:
LLM2TEA: Agentic AI Designer Finds Innovative Objects with Generative Evolutionary Multitasking

https://lemmy.ml/post/28298525

At the SIGGRAPH conference in 1984, Bill Atkinson and designer Susan Kare did a live demo of MacPaint. People were blown away - the design, the ease of use, the responsiveness. It set the paradigm for almost every graphics application in use today.
I have a message into the SIGGRAPH history people to see if a video of the presentation survives, but back then it's not likely.

Investigating the Potential of Large Language Model-Based Router Multi-Agent Architectures for Foundation Design Automation: A Task Classification and Expert Selection Study
Sompote Youwai, David Phim, Vianne Gayl Murcia, Rianne Clair Onas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13811

Investigating the Potential of Large Language Model-Based Router Multi-Agent Architectures for Foundation Design Automation: A Task Classification and Expert Selection Study
This study investigates router-based multi-agent systems for automating foundation design calculations through intelligent task classification and expert selection. Three approaches were evaluated: single-agent processing, multi-agent designer-checker architecture, and router-based expert selection. Performance assessment utilized baseline models including DeepSeek R1, ChatGPT 4 Turbo, Grok 3, and Gemini 2.5 Pro across shallow foundation and pile design scenarios. The router-based configuration…

Memory Hierarchy Design for Caching Middleware in the Age of NVM
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Sandy Irani, Jenny Lam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05071 https://

Memory Hierarchy Design for Caching Middleware in the Age of NVM
Advances in storage technology have introduced Non-Volatile Memory, NVM, as a new storage medium. NVM, along with Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Solid State Disk (SSD), and Disk present a system designer with a wide array of options in designing caching middleware. Moreover, design decisions to replicate a data item in more than one level of a caching memory hierarchy may enhance the overall system performance with a faster recovery time in the event of a memory failure. Given a fixed bud…

IDEA: Augmenting Design Intelligence through Design Space Exploration
Chuer Chen, Xiaoke Yan, Xiaoyu Qi, Nan Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10587 https://

IDEA: Augmenting Design Intelligence through Design Space Exploration
Design spaces serve as a conceptual framework that enables designers to explore feasible solutions through the selection and combination of design elements. However, effective decision-making remains heavily dependent on the designer's experience, and the absence of mathematical formalization prevents computational support for automated design processes. To bridge this gap, we introduce a structured representation that models design spaces with orthogonal dimensions and discrete selectable elem…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.24191 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…

Flexible Demand Manipulation
We develop a simple framework to analyze how targeted persuasive advertising shapes market power and welfare. A designer flexibly manipulates the demand curve by influencing individual valuations at a cost. A monopolist prices against this manipulated demand curve. We fully characterize the form of optimal advertising plans under ex-ante and ex-post welfare measures. Flexibility per se is powerful, and can substantially harm or benefit consumers vis-a-vis uniform advertising. We discuss implica…

Resonant interlayer coupling in NbSe$_2$-graphite epitaxial moir{\'e} superlattices
S. Mo, K. Kovalenka, S. Buchberger, B. K. Saika, A. Azhar, A. Rajan, A. Zivanovic, Y. -C. Yao, R. V. Belosludov, M. D. Watson, M. S. Bahramy, P. D. C. King
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00449

Resonant interlayer coupling in NbSe$_2$-graphite epitaxial moir{é} superlattices
Moir{é} heterostructures, created by stacking two-dimensional (2D) materials together with a finite lattice mismatch or rotational twist, represent a new frontier of designer quantum materials. Typically, however, this requires the painstaking manual assembly of heterostructures formed from exfoliated materials. Here, we observe clear spectroscopic signatures of moir{é} lattice formation in epitaxial heterostructures of monolayer (ML) NbSe$_2$ grown on graphite substrates. Our angle-resolved …

A MARL-based Approach for Easing MAS Organization Engineering
Julien Soul\'e, Jean-Paul Jamont, Michel Occello, Louis-Marie Traonouez, Paul Th\'eron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05437

A MARL-based Approach for Easing MAS Organization Engineering
Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have been successfully applied in industry for their ability to address complex, distributed problems, especially in IoT-based systems. Their efficiency in achieving given objectives and meeting design requirements is strongly dependent on the MAS organization during the engineering process of an application-specific MAS. To design a MAS that can achieve given goals, available methods rely on the designer's knowledge of the deployment environment. However, high complex…