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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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Apple's Liquid Glass is a grim portent for UX
Industry leaders like Apple and Shopify are redefining design excellence from making products usable to solely luxury branding.

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…

Tele Columbus: Es ist an der Zeit, das Ende von DSL einzuläuten
Die Telekom will die DSL-Abschaltung auf die lange Bank schieben. Tele Columbus hält dagegen: Der Wechsel auf Glasfaser spare Geld und wappne für die Zukunft.

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…

'The US has, however, not found that Iran is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons or attempting to do so. In March, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the US “continues to assess that Iran is not building nuclear weapons and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not authorised the nuclear weapons programme he suspended in 2003”.'
What is behind Israel’s decision to attack Iran? | Conflict News | Al Jazeera

What is behind Israel’s decision to attack Iran?
Israel believes Iran is a threat to its security despite Iran’s insistence that it doesn’t want nuclear weapons.

Our pre-conference Barcamp has become a real highlight, offering a fantastic opportunity to connect with fellow attendees and dive into some engaging conversations before the main conference even kicks off. This year, Nick Burch will once again be guiding the flow of ideas and discussions on 15 June, starting at 2:30 pm. It's a great way to warm up, share your thoughts, and meet new people!
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If groups of parents can band together when deciding on the right age for a smartphone for their younger children, they will stand a better chance to avoid making decisions based on peer pressure at school.
https://theprivacydad.com/how-parent-c

Mind the Gap: Revealing Security Barriers through Situational Awareness of Small and Medium Business Key Decision-Makers
Yuanhaur Chang, Oren Heller, Yaniv Shlomo, Iddo Bar-Noy, Ella Bokobza, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Ning Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10025

Mind the Gap: Revealing Security Barriers through Situational Awareness of Small and Medium Business Key Decision-Makers
Key decision-makers in small and medium businesses (SMBs) often lack the awareness and knowledge to implement cybersecurity measures effectively. To gain a deeper understanding of how SMB executives navigate cybersecurity decision-making, we deployed a mixed-method approach, conducting semi-structured interviews (n=21) and online surveys (n=322) with SMB key decision-makers. Using thematic analysis, we revealed SMB decision-makers' perceived risks in terms of the digital assets they valued, and…

They are boarding up DTLA for tomorrow.

Apple unveils a Liquid Glass design language across its platforms, adding transparency and glass shine effects to Apple's in-app interfaces (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/682636/apple-liquid-design-glass-theme-wwdc-2025

Apple’s new design language is Liquid Glass
Apple is launching a new design language. Liquid Glass will be available on all of Apple’s software.