IKEA Words: How Not to Furnish Your Digital Home
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IKEA Words: How Not to Furnish Your Digital Home
"It turns your possessions into a feature, a display, in the way that we might use art or photographs to add personality to a space. The style of display is undoubtedly Instagram-centric, with colour-coordination and white space between objects helping everything to pop nicely on a screen, encouraging us to show them off to others."
Alana Hope Levinson • Tidycore Makes a Real Mess
the fast growth that comes with adopting a recognizable template, whether for a physical space or purely digital content, gives way to the daily grind of keeping
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
This is the IKEA Effect in action. It’s a cognitive bias in which consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created or customized.
Ramli John • Product-Led Onboarding
IKEA meanings: when we default to words and insights that are pre-packaged, shallow, or meaningless. It’s easy to get lost in a whole veneer of religious lingo, but it risks being over-index of signifiers instead of the embodied meaning behind the word. ie: It’s possible for a person to take non-religious actions, and yet, convince themselves they’
... See moreWith this in mind, is it any wonder young people’s ideas about what ‘home’ means have shifted radically? Should it really come as a surprise that for the generation now coming of age, the concept of ‘home’ is more unstable, impermanent, and deeply-rooted in emotion than ever before?