Opinionated takes on industrial, graphic, and digital product design — written in Markdown, delivered from the edge.https://designtakes.com/en-UShttps://designtakes.com/posts/why-everything-looks-the-same/https://designtakes.com/posts/why-everything-looks-the-same/Sans-serif logos, rounded rectangles, the same four gradients. Design didn't run out of ideas — it ran out of friction. A take on the great flattening.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTgraphic designbrandingopinionhttps://designtakes.com/posts/quiet-genius-braun-et66/https://designtakes.com/posts/quiet-genius-braun-et66/Dieter Rams' 1987 calculator has a colour-coded equals key and almost nothing else. Forty years on, it's still the clearest object lesson in restraint that industrial design has produced.Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTindustrial designdieter ramshistory