Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire

Re:Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire by twobitshifter on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @06:59PM (#28296029)

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" >>

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Re:Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire by hinkley on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @08:31PM (#28296739)

I wonder if that really would have worked out.

They say you should never meet your heroes. Working with these people likely would have pushed them into his “shithead” category.

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Re:Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire by setpatchaddress on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @01:41AM (#28298376)

Eh. He worked with frogdesign, Paul Rand, Avie T., and a host of software people with strong opinions at NeXT. He wasn’t incapable of working with other people.

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Re:Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire by wildpeaks on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @08:39AM (#28300874)

Oh it's so nice to see a reference to Tamiko in the wild, she's a wonderful person.

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