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Blue As The Future's Visual Cue
- Sci‑fi movies overwhelmingly color future interfaces blue across decades.
- Blue reads as inhuman and futuristic, shaping audience expectations of tech aesthetics.
Star Trek Shaped A Phone Design
- Motorola engineers discovered users expected a phone to open upward because of Star Trek's communicator.
- They redesigned the MicroTac and the next model sold far better as the 'Star Trek' phone.
Create A Unified Visual Language
- Establish a consistent visual syntax so interfaces feel unified and recognizable.
- Uniform visual language signals brand and function across many contexts, as Lcars did for Star Trek.