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Apple is famous for pixel perfect prototyping, of numerous possible solutions, before choosing. Did they prototype and test various office layouts? If not, wh

• Digory 9y ago
  The WSJ article said Apple prototyped one work area, and then multiplied it across the available space. "Hav­ing set­tled on an over­all shape, the team then broke it down into smaller parts. “One of the ad­van­tages of this ring is the rep­e­ti­tion of a num­ber of seg-ments,” says Ive. “We could put enor­mous care and at­ten­tion to de­tail into what is es­sen­tially a slice that is then re­peated. So there’s tremen­dous prag­ma­tism in the build­ing.” The ring would be made up of pods—units of work­space—built around a cen­tral area, like a spoke point­ing to­ward the cen­ter of the ring, and a row of cus­tomizable seat­ing within each site: 80 pods per floor, 320 in to­tal, but only one to pro­to­type and get right."
  • marze 9y ago
    Prototyping one version seems un-Apple. I would have expected them to have prototyped many office layout options, had people work in them for six months each and rate them or otherwise measure quality.