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by Cloudy 4052 days ago
They come off a bit biased towards the design fetish, and how the engineer had to deal with the knowingly uncompromising dream designer.

  Scott’s mission was to reinvent the look, feel, and even
   personality of a computer, without limits. He worked to 
  capture an idea and a feeling without worrying initially 
  about the execution of that idea.



  The Engineering Challenge: Realize the Design

  For George, he sees his role as one to challenge 
  assumptions and do his utmost to realize Scott’s design.


  “My role as the Engineer is to take what the Industrial 
  Designer says is the Bible and try and put that into 
  production, more than coming back with “we have to change 
  this and that,” George says. “Because wherever possible, 
  we don’t want to compromise on our vision. We’ve made 
  every step necessary to manifest the industrial design 
  and try to reflect the creativity and personality of the 
  product.”

Design is great, but this just reminds me of design by Homer [1]

[1] http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/the-homer-in...