{"id":355139,"date":"2026-03-24T07:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/355139\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T07:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:44:11","slug":"a-perfect-commentary-on-modern-industrial-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/355139\/","title":{"rendered":"A Perfect Commentary on Modern Industrial Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p id=\"70b52d_1638\" data-ic-marker=\"f8935d_8132\">This WAY ruler is by <a href=\"https:\/\/tomaskral.ch\/\" style=\"background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.1em;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tomas Kral<\/a>, an ECAL professor and industrial designer with a sense of humor. The object perfectly comments on an issue that plagues modern product design, where the UX is often compromised by efforts to introduce aesthetic elements:<\/p>\n<p id=\"ab36c5_266\" data-ic-marker=\"7f48c9_2812\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-image-width=\"880\" data-image-height=\"660\" data-image-id=\"1818925\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1818925_81_142876_HW_nOa6cI.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"3e9c95_64\" data-ic-marker=\"3b8c43_3507\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-image-width=\"880\" data-image-height=\"660\" data-image-id=\"1818928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1818928_81_142876_qbGec_Git.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 1.1em;\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"9f5b9a_1565\" data-ic-marker=\"c387c2_7918\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1818926_81_142876_mrklQfVI_.jpg\"\/> <\/p>\n<p id=\"8856af_1725\" data-ic-marker=\"d9b3ed_3128\">Kral could&#8217;ve stopped at a rendering, but almost as if to drive the point home, he produced a batch of these and sells them on <a href=\"https:\/\/tomaskral.ch\/shop\/office-accessory\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his website.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; This WAY ruler is by Tomas Kral, an ECAL professor and industrial designer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,438,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-355139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}