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9 Best Articles in 2021
UX Planet
Design principle: IKEA effectUX Planet
5 min read · From 2017 · How to make people love the product
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priceonomics.com
When Do You Outgrow IKEA?priceonomics.com
3 min read · From 2016 · At what age do you start to outgrow IKEA?
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Hustle_says
The thriving business of ‘Ikea hacking’Hustle_says
7 min read · Jun 20th · A growing number of companies are offering design tweaks for old Ikea furniture — and business is booming.
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When we first started, we thought, ‘It’s just furniture legs, it’s not rocket science!’ But everything becomes rocket science as a business scales,” she says.
In the 1950s, furniture was seen as a generational investment that would last decades. Today, the average couch lasts just 6 years.
“We’re all in the business of making Ikea products last longer,” says Cagin, of Prettypegs. “We want to turn fast furniture into slow furniture.”
Bloomberg
Get Lost in 70 Years of Old IKEA CatalogsBloomberg
4 min read · 2020-08-25 ·   The Swedish furniture giant dropped its catalog archives online, letting shoppers browse 19,000 pages of midcentury Scandinavian design.
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amplitude.com
Onboarding With The IKEA Effect: How To Use UX Friction To Build Retentionamplitude.com
5 min read · From 2016 · IKEA builds brand loyalty and retention by making customers put together furniture. You can do it by making users customize their own onboarding.
FiveThirtyEight
The Weird Economics Of IkeaFiveThirtyEight
6 min read · From 2016 · Ikea is a behemoth. The home furnishing company uses 1 percent of the planet’s lumber, it says, and the 530 million cubic feet of wood used to make Ikea furniture each year pulls with its own kind …
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FiveThirtyEight
The Weird Economics Of IkeaFiveThirtyEight
6 min read · From 2016 · Ikea is a behemoth. The home furnishing company uses 1 percent of the planet’s lumber, it says, and the 530 million cubic feet of wood used to make Ikea furniture each year pulls with its own kind …
TNW
How IKEA tricks your brain into buying moreTNW
6 min read · From 2017 · Have you ever been to an IKEA concept store? If you’ve ever visited one, you were part of one big experiment. The Swedish company has been using these concept centers for something you wouldn’t…
Fast Company
To slash waste, Ikea looks to artificial intelligenceFast Company
2 min read · 2020-03-05 · One of every 10 Ikea items gets returned—and 15% of that goes to waste. Enter AI.
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Fast Company
Ikea is launching a furniture buyback programFast Company
2 min read · Aug 30th · Done with your Malm? Ikea will pay you for it.
Nerdist
IKEA Is Releasing a Lineup of Cyberpunk Gaming FurnitureNerdist
2 min read · Sep 17th · IKEA and ASUS' Republic of Gamers division are releasing a lineup of gaming furniture that looks both ergonomic and cyberpunk.
Digital Trends
Ikea Leaks Details Of Its Next Sonos Symfonisk Table LampDigital Trends
2 min read · Sep 11th · An unreleased version of the Ikea Symfonisk Table Lamp, with swappable shades and a redesigned base, has been spotted by a Reddit user.
Guardian Tech
Ikea Symfonisk picture frame review: Sonos wifi speaker hidden by artGuardian Tech
6 min read · Aug 23rd · Latest collaboration puts great sound behind fabric art panel that can be hung or leant against a wall
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Co.Design
It’s official: Ikea is no longer just a furniture companyCo.Design
4 min read · From 2018 · Ikea is partnering with Adidas, Lego, and Sonos to sell you <em>everything</em>.
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Architectural Digest
Need to Get Away? How About an IKEA Tiny House?Architectural Digest
1 min read · Feb 23rd · If you've ever wanted to live in an IKEA, now you can (sort of)
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Print magazine
The IKEA Catalog is Dead. Long Live the IKEA Catalog.Print magazine
3 min read · 2020-12-09 · IKEA has announced that after seven decades—following an “emotional but rational decision”—its iconic catalog is coming to an end.
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Fast Company
Ikea is quietly changing its brand again—for a very good reasonFast Company
2 min read · From 2019 · In the company’s 2020 catalog, Ikea swapped its custom typeface for something much simpler: a Google-designed font called Noto.
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Recode
Ikea has bought TaskRabbitRecode
5 min read · From 2017 · The Swedish home goods giant is looking for some digital help from the contract labor marketplace.
Fast Company
Ikea is launching a furniture buyback programFast Company
2 min read · Aug 30th · Done with your Malm? Ikea will pay you for it.
FORTUNE
Ikea - FortuneFORTUNE
~14 min read · From 2015 · By Beth Kowitt Photographs by Andrew Hetherington March 10, 2015, 1:00 AM EDT Photographs by Andrew Hetherington In a stunning global expansion, the Swedish home furnishings giant has been quietly…
Fast Company
Now that Ikea has colonized Earth, it’s going after MarsFast Company
4 min read · 2019-12-02 · Ikea sent a designer to live in a research station that mimics a Mars habitat to learn about designing for small spaces. Now, she’s redesigned the station itself.
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  - IKEAikea.com
2 min read · From 2015 · IKEA furniture and home accessories are practical, well designed and affordable. Here you can find your country's IKEA website and more about the IKEA business idea.
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