I recently moved and ended up buying a lot of IKEA furniture. While assembling the different pieces, I began to notice how IKEA devises their instructions to gently lead builders through complex tasks. One of the customer’s first interactions with an IKEA product will be to build it, and this…

Over the last few weeks, I’ve read a few articles that review Amazon’s latest patent for a process to automate apparel manufacture. Most of them seem to focus on how Amazon’s patent to make custom clothing could revolutionize clothing manufacture or even “sound the death knell” for the apparel industry…