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"Designs to Stick" and "Designs to Wrestle" - What the AB 1709 Litigation Asks of Technology

"Designs to Retain" and "Designs to Cultivate" - The Questions Raised by the AB 1709 Lawsuit About the Intentions of Technology Google, Meta, and TikTok have filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction…

  • AB 1709 lawsuit challenges "pulling" vs "hardening" design in tech
  • Focus on psychological impact on children, not screen itself
  • Meta's Amblyotube uses dichoptic training for weak vision improvement

Reverse Logistics and Returns: Designing the Sorter for What Comes Back

Most sortation systems are designed for the outbound flow and treated as an afterthought for returns. Yet returns are where margin quietly disappears — and where a sorter designed only for pristine…

  • Returns sortation requires specialized systems due to damaged, open, or improperly packaged items.
  • Induction mechanism should be manual or semi-automatic to handle mixed, non-conveyable packaging.
  • WCS logic must track return reasons for data-driven insights and future reduction strategies.

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