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J Ive manages and coaches a team of industrial designers and their collaboration with engineers. You cant be very effective, no matter how good you are, when yo
by hop 16y ago
J Ive manages and coaches a team of industrial designers and their collaboration with engineers. You cant be very effective, no matter how good you are, when you are on the other side of the world - someone would surely step up and take his place.
Also, Jobs has shaped Apple culture to put crucial importance on industrial design and is very hands on with the decisions. This influence coming from the top, serves Apple well no matter who is the VP of iD is... as long as Steve is around.
- projectileboy 16y agoI disagree with your assertion that you can't be very effective if you're not co-located. 37 Signals (for one) proves this wrong daily. I agree that co-location is preferable, but if you divide the work in a sane fashion, and you work with excellent people, geographically distributed teams aren't a showstopper. This would be true x20 for Ives.
- StrawberryFrog 16y ago37 Signals (for one) proves this wrong daily 37 Signals doesn't design iPhones. Physical objects are not websites.
- projectileboy 16y agoI understand, but it's not obvious to me that that really makes a difference.