Domino, the brand name of the pizza company that’s been redesigned by creative director David Doyle, has long been synonymous with “quick and easy.” And while they certainly still offer this convenience to their customers (through an app or in-store ordering), they’ve also been at the forefront of tech innovations for their delivery business, like adding the ability to order via voice with Amazon Echo and developing a purpose-built driverless car for delivering pizza.
Besides domino pizza, Domino’s has also branched out into home, travel, fitness and other lifestyle verticals that capitalize on trends and create new revenue streams for the brand. Moreover, the company has expanded its publishing offerings with books and a podcast that feature designers such as Ayesha Curry and Bobby Berk.
The company has also invested in Domino Digital, a platform for building customized online experiences for customers that can be delivered on any device. This enables Domino’s to leverage its expertise in technology to deliver personalized and engaging experiences for their customers.
In the world of education, dominoes have been used to teach students about the relationship between numbers and letters, a process called recursion. Teachers have also used dominoes to help students practice reciting their times tables. They can also use a domino set to build an alphabet or number chain, as well as use the tiles to show how letters or numbers are pronounced. A student with autism could use a domino set with pictures on the tiles to name each one as they play, helping them to recall and reinforce classroom experiences.
Western dominoes are a series of small oblong pieces marked with dots or numbers on each face, used to play games in which one player places a piece edge-to-edge against another such that the adjacent faces either match (e.g., 5 to 5) or form some specified total (e.g., 20). Other types of domino play involve blocking games or scoring games that are similar to card games.
Like playing cards, dominoes have a standardized shape that makes them easy to stack and organize. The most common dominoes have a value of six pips on each side, although some have as few as two or none. The sum of a domino’s pips is its rank or weight, which helps determine the order in which the pieces fall when laid down.
As each domino falls, most of its potential energy converts to kinetic energy, which enables it to push on the next domino in line. This continues until all the dominoes have fallen. During this time, the dominoes can be rearranged in various configurations, but it is important to consider the impact of each piece before laying it down. Dominoes can be arranged in straight lines, curved lines, or even 3D structures such as towers and pyramids. They can be used to create art as well, with some artists using the pieces to make a picture or word on the wall or to form a map of a city or country.