A lot of thought goes into giving your smartphone a distinctive look and feel, from the shape of the speaker — square, round or oval — to where to put the buttons — side, front or back.
But industrial designers like Robert Brunner say he doesn’t have a lot of room to be creative.
“Because you’re really being so heavily driven on maintaining a minimal physical size,” he says. “So you really get into this very fine envelope of a few millimeters that you have to work with.”
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