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Re:The Hofmeister Kink: A Lasting BMW Design Detail by anuraggoel on Thursday January 15, 2009 @11:17PM (#436147)
A similar concept from UI design is Apple's async progress indicator. Many more non-Apple applications and websites (eg. Twitter) seem to be using it now, but Microsoft (like Mercedes) will probably never use it.

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conc...

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conc...

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Re:The Hofmeister Kink: A Lasting BMW Design Detail by josefresco on Friday January 16, 2009 @08:43AM (#436584)
Pales in comparison to the history and market effect of 'the kink'.
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