[HN Gopher] Two perspectives on the designer who Steve Jobs coul... ___________________________________________________________________ Two perspectives on the designer who Steve Jobs could not hire Author : conanxin Score : 9 points Date : 2021-08-24 22:19 UTC (41 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (www.arun.is) (TXT) w3m dump (www.arun.is) | twobitshifter wrote: | Another designer he couldn't hire built the connection machine | | http://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/index.html | | > How the Connection Machine inspired Steve Jobs: | | My old friend Joanna Hoffman was marketing manager for the first | Macintosh and the NeXT computer, and Steve Jobs' "right hand," as | depicted by Kate Winslet in the film "Steve Jobs." In 1986, when | the Connection Machine came out, Jobs asked her to get its | designer to create his new NeXT computer as well. To which Joanna | replied, "Too late, Tamiko has gone to Europe to become an | artist!" But the machine made a lasting impression on him, and | from that point on, Jobs' designs were not merely useful - they | were visually sublime. | | See "CM-1/CM-2 Design Legacy" >> ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-08-24 23:00 UTC)