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Locating Risk: Task Designers and the Challenge of Risk Disclosure in RAI Content Work
Alice Qian Zhang, Ryland Shaw, Laura Dabbish, Jina Suh, Hong Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24246

Everyone thinks #AI can do someone else's job. Designers want to get rid of PMs. PMs think they no longer need devs. Devs can't wait to generate designs. And managers are anticipating getting rid of us all.
Alas, in the few cases the tools work at all, they get you no more than 80% of the way there. Without experts to identify where that 20-100% gap is, you have nothing.
I've …

"Why Libraries Should Invest in Visual Design" @ Katina Magazine: https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/why-librarians-should-invest-in-visual-design
"As libraries face f…

(World) Building Transformation: Students and Teachers as CoCreators in OpenXR Learning Environments
Abigail Greenbaum, Elizabeth Strickler, Victoria Patterson, Bolu Oluleye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22988

Techies are always chasing the mythical tool that will let them "focus on the work" and avoid tedious distractions like "talking to people." AI tools are only the latest to promise this impossible dream.
But talking to people IS the work. You can complain about it on the internet, or take responsibility and make your life a lot easier.
#LLM

No please (Designers need it) — but give us a switch for the ones who want to change it
https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/114591957686778559

I‘m afraid I won’t be able to make it to this year’s #CSSDay. 😔 And, looking at the stellar lineup and all the lovely people who will be there, FOMO is already huge! 🥲
Watching the talks remotely might help a bit, but just can’t replace the onsite experience …
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"Mike gave a legendary talk called “F*ck You, Pay Me,” with a title inspired by a quote from the late Ray Liotta in the 1990 movie “Goodfellas.”
What is interesting about this talk is that, despite being primarily directed to designers, its contents are immediately suitable for freelancing software engineers, a profession whose work is, at least since the return of Steve Jobs to Apple in 1997, inextricably linked to that of designers."

If You Had to Pitch Your Ideal Software -- Evaluating Large Language Models to Support User Scenario Writing for User Experience Experts and Laypersons
Patrick Stadler, Christopher Lazik, Christopher Katins, Thomas Kosch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23694

"It's this brutal fragility of vector stacks — which are used by most modern computer languages — which makes software people so wary of fully exploiting the beauty and power of recursion, and I really think that's a shame"
#Lisp

Beyond the Prototype: Challenges of Long-Term Integration of Visual Analytics in Civic Spaces
Mahmood Jasim, Narges Mahyar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24102

"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…

iDSE: Navigating Design Space Exploration in High-Level Synthesis Using LLMs
Runkai Li, Jia Xiong, Xi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22086 https://…

I propose the following contest for the Apple designers and engineers working on the UI:
Round 1: create a folder with two apps
Round 2: after placing the folder at one the side of the screen, add two more apps to the folder.
Round 3: add four more apps to the folder but on the second screen of the folder
Round 4: move top left and 3rd icons from the 2nd screen to another, new folder
Each round should be timed.
If you are proud with your result, all good.

@… Awesome, thanks for sharing. I teach a 3-week ethics course for UX Designers and I use the story in similar ways.

Finite-size security analysis for quantum protocols: A Python framework using the Entropy Accumulation Theorem with graphical interface
Piotr Mironowicz, Mohamed Bourennane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18888

AnyAni: An Interactive System with Generative AI for Animation Effect Creation and Code Understanding in Web Development
Tianrun Qiu, Yuxin Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21962

Global Microprocessor Correctness in the Presence of Transient Execution
Andrew T. Walter, Konstantinos Athanasiou, Panagiotis Manolios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17154

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/

"The disconnection between designers and users has let user interfaces to drift off to a space where only designers are satisfied by them. It is time to remember the users trying to find those buttons, trying to bend those spoons, and to take their satisfaction into account, too."
https://d…

NGL, watching UI designers on Mastodon have a meltdown over the liquid glass redesign is kind of fun. #WWDC25

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04629 has been replaced.
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Note to web designers: if you set a size for body text fonts, a substantial part of your audience won't be able to read your page at all, so you've lost them; and more tech-savvy users will either zoom the page, breaking your clever design, or remove your styling altogether (which is what I tend to do).
The user knows what size of font the user can read. The user has their preferences set up so they can read their screen. Trust the user.
And if that breaks your design, yo…

All tools create a path of least resistance. When it comes to AI chatbots, that path is to trust the AI's outputs.
Unfortunately, all LLMs hallucinate. And as users get used to relying on the machine, their ability and willingness to spot these errors deteriorates.
Blaming the user for this is irresponsible. The problem is caused by the way these tools are designed - so it's up to us, as designers, to fix it.

Intelligent Design 4.0: Paradigm Evolution Toward the Agentic AI Era
Shuo Jiang, Min Xie, Frank Youhua Chen, Jian Ma, Jianxi Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09755

AURA: Agentic Upskilling via Reinforced Abstractions
Alvin Zhu, Yusuke Tanaka, Dennis Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02507 https://a…

It was unavoidable that this week I'd end up writing about Apple's latest blunder. But in the context of Figma's Sites bullshit and Shopify recasting designers as "artists" it's even worse than one OS making a stupid decision.
The mission of #UXdesign is being changed: orienting away from making useful products that work for everyone, and towards branding.
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Near-feasible Fair Allocations in Two-sided Markets
Javier Cembrano, Andr\'es Moraga, Victor Verdugo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01178 https://

iVAMS 3.0: Hierarchical-Machine-Learning-Metamodel-Integrated Intelligent Verilog-AMS for Ultra-Fast, Accurate Mixed-Signal Design Optimization
Saraju P. Mohanty, Elias Kougianos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01045

"What Stroustrup wanted was apparently what a lot of people wanted: a language that provided OOP features, such as those offered by Smalltalk, but compiled into binaries that would execute as fast as an executable written in C.
The solution Stroustrup adopted was not to adopt the Smalltalk model, but instead to take inspiration from fellow Scandinavians and to bolt ideas borrowed from Simula into C."

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22086 has been replaced.
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Insights Informed Generative AI for Design: Incorporating Real-world Data for Text-to-Image Output
Richa Gupta, Alexander Htet Kyaw
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15008

ChartBlender: An Interactive System for Authoring and Synchronizing Visualization Charts in Video
Yi He, Yuqi Liu, Chenpu Li, Ruoyan Chen, Chuer Chen, Shengqi Dang, Nan Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13129

Exploring the Potential of Metacognitive Support Agents for Human-AI Co-Creation
Frederic Gmeiner, Kaitao Luo, Ye Wang, Kenneth Holstein, Nikolas Martelaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12879

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