July 31, 2010
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Wired: You’re a Mac user. What have you learned from the design of Apple products?
Brooks: Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera, once said that his method of design was to start with a vision of what you want and then, one by one, remove the technical obstacles until you have it. I think that’s what Steve Jobs does. He starts with a vision rather than a list of features.
Kevin Kelly interviews Fred Brooks, author of The Mythical Man-Month and the new The Design of Design.
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Sometimes I think Mr. Jobs is a blank slate that people project their fantasies onto.
This is not a slam of him, or Apple, or their fine products. The very nature of Apple’s keeping things very quiet allows people to fill in the blanks with whatever hobby horses they happen to be riding that day.
Apologies for the mixed metaphor. I was up late last night.
Just like Bella Swan.
Y’know, Amanda Mae, I’m so out of touch with parts of pop culture that I had to do a search to find out what you were referring to.
She is a blank slate for 13 year olds to project themselves on in order to live out their fantasies.
13 year olds usually project fantasies of being up late at night.