> a squircle doesn’t look like a square with surgery performed on it; it registers as an entity in its own right, like the shape of a smooth pebble in a riverbed, a unified and elemental whole.
But I seem to remember reading about Jobs or maybe Ive stating smooth pebbles as a source of inspiration for how objects should feel in the hand – I believe it was in the context of the first iPhone shape.
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> a squircle doesn’t look like a square with surgery performed on it; it registers as an entity in its own right, like the shape of a smooth pebble in a riverbed, a unified and elemental whole.
But I seem to remember reading about Jobs or maybe Ive stating smooth pebbles as a source of inspiration for how objects should feel in the hand – I believe it was in the context of the first iPhone shape.