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Yes, he's a great physical product designer. But to bring that, and apply the same principles into SW just doesn't make sense
by raverbashing 4y ago
Yes, he's a great physical product designer. But to bring that, and apply the same principles into SW just doesn't make sense
- ben_w 4y agoI’m not so sure he’s even that, I think the hockey puck iMac mouse was his?
- lupire 4y agoHe's a great physical aesthetic designer. He's terrible at human interfaces, hardware or software.
- azemetre 4y agoI feel like you can't be a great designer if you neglect human interfaces, at that point you're just an artist. Nothing wrong with that, but good design it is not.
- tchalla 4y agoI’m not sure if having some badly designed products doesn’t make one a great physical product designer. It’s completely possible to be a great product designer with few bad products. I’m not arguing that Ive is a great designer. Ok just saying that the iMac hockey puck mouse doesn’t invalidate that claim.
- ben_w 4y agoFair. I use it as an example of uncontroversially bad design, and his most infamous mistake being ages ago does count in his favour (even if the dead cockroach charging mechanism of the modern mouse is also his), even though I chose that example in part because people argue both ways about his more recent design choices. Myself, I do not like any design choice I’ve heard attributed to him, but that’s not enough by itself either.