--- title: Perfecting The Shape-Changing Fruit Bowl | daily.dev description: Simone Giertz designed a shape-changing fruit bowl that uses an iris mechanism in a flat base to allow radial expansion of the walls. The post covers her... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/perfecting-the-shape-changing-fruit-bowl-juc2m7t41 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Perfecting The Shape-Changing Fruit Bowl | daily.dev og:description: Simone Giertz designed a shape-changing fruit bowl that uses an iris mechanism in a flat base to allow radial expansion of the walls. The post covers her... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/perfecting-the-shape-changing-fruit-bowl-juc2m7t41 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jUc2m7T41.png og:image:alt: Perfecting The Shape-Changing Fruit Bowl og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Perfecting The Shape-Changing Fruit Bowl **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Simone Giertz designed a shape-changing fruit bowl that uses an iris mechanism in a flat base to allow radial expansion of the walls. The post covers her iterative design process, balancing functionality with aesthetics and design-for-manufacturing constraints across multiple prototypes using 3D printing and CNC machining. A key takeaway is her insight that product development is a spiral, not a circle. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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