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It takes one designer... no it doesn't. it takes a design team, just as it takes an engineering team.

• stdbrouw 15y ago
  It's about relative numbers. In the case of most big corps, it isn't even about one team but about many different teams working together. And usually engineering are the bigger teams, or there are more of them.
• kevinalexbrown 15y ago
  Also, you probably want designing teams smaller, because it's easier to parcel out and subdivide engineering problems than design problems: I feel like it's easier to maintain consistency across code than across various elements of user experience.
• technoslut 15y ago
  I think his intent was to say it takes one person to make that final choice on the design. If it wasn't then you are clearly in the right. Usually design by committee ends up being a total disaster because the UI feels disjointed. Ultimately I believe it was in reference to Jobs being the 'taste guy'. Sidenote: While the Mac is certainly inconsistent in design (mostly iTunes), iOS is far less so. I guess you can attribute it to Jobs always being interested in the next new thing. In the last WWDC appearance by Jobs, one could clearly see that he was more excited by iOS than Lion.