Design like IKEA

If you are one of the few people who has not had the pleasure of visiting an IKEA store or they have yet to come to a city near you, go or book a plane ticket (just kidding)

The Alter Imaging team recently traversed to the Charlotte NC IKEA for some inspiration (and some new stuff) .

What we found was more than that.

IKEAs designer have really hit the nail on the head of how to merge functionality and design. Apart from their awesome furnishings. We were Wowed by the way they take their design down to the most minute detail. All the way down to their building instructions.

No Words, Just Right.



As opposed to the normal set of instructions for most things:

The Moral of the story

Even though it would seem IKEA directions seem like a great coloring book (That they are!) it also shows us a valuable design lesson.

Make things as easy as possible for your customers to navigate and use. They will thank you for it in the long run, with either return business or that delicious thing we like to call word of mouth.

This concept applies from instructions to customer service support through to web development. It's always a great idea to think about the design of what you are trying to accomplish doing accomplishing it.

Keep that in mind and whatever you do, don't follow this example