Design
The activity of planning and shaping the form and function of objects, spaces, or interfaces for a given purpose, and the result of that work. It spans fields such as industrial, graphic, and architectural design.
IKEA assembly manuals contain zero words, only diagrams. This has been the company's design choice since 1956, when it sold its first flat-pack furniture, so customers anywhere in the world can assemble it from the same pictures without translation.
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In 1915 Coca-Cola asked glassmakers for a bottle recognizable by touch in the dark or by its shards. Designer Earl Dean found no images of coca leaves or kola nuts, so he sketched a similarly named cocoa pod instead—the mix-up shaped the bottle.
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Smartphone app icons are not rounded squares — they are "squircles," a portmanteau of square and circle. Defined by the mathematical equation |x|⁴ + |y|⁴ = r⁴, this superellipse shape gives a smoother, more pleasing impression than simply rounding the corners.
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