The resulting design is stripped down, with innovation mostly restricted to the sole's highly flexible grip and the upper's foot-anchoring webbing, while still managing to hit an aesthetic sweet spot.
Mr. Heiliger said that with a team of three engineers, Facebook had designed stripped-down servers that were 38 percent more efficient and 24 percent cheaper than those sold by major server makers.
And it's not just speed, because these containers are so efficient in design and so stripped down, instead of an average of 10 VMs per server, you could get 100 containers, and that's a huge difference in terms of cost to run your data center.
Following a T-shirt collaboration with Opening Ceremony last summer, Mr. Koh (above) has now designed white leather Converse sneakers, stripped down and smoothed out for a minimalist effect.
It's stripped down, and designed to run better on mobile computing platforms.
At Vintage Classics, they're not plugging simplicity or stripped down design.
The stripped down design is more casual and less about voting and choosing sides.
The more ephemeral, real-time chatter expected from the CES feed will benefit from Secret's new stripped down design seen above.
In Raphael's pictures, the world, so clogged and vacuum-packed in northern designs, is cleared out and stripped down, with figures grouped like sculptural tableaus within receding landscapes of earth, water and sky.
Today, though, CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off a stripped down new design for Messenger that cuts out the games and camera tabs from the navigation bar.
Meanwhile, the stripped down, sterilized design format can remove important links that help recirculate traffic to a publisher's other posts, and that encourage people to pay for subscriptions, buy event tickets, or sign up for newsletters.
