Steve Jobs didn’t design anything as far as I know. He did, however, lead the design direction but would hardly qualify him as a designer.
I worked on a project for him. He was just an awful human being, but he was crazy detailed oriented… and the devil is in the details. IMHO, his greatest strength was that he knew how to sniff out and monetize others’ brilliant work. Work that would otherwise go unnoticed. Some people call that parasitic, but I disagree. There are many brilliant projects that go unfunded because the people with the purse lack vision and imagination.
EDIT: Typo and grammar fixes after I found my galsses.
He was definitely a parasite.
And an awful excuse for a human being in general.
I hear ya, and I seriously disliked that motherfucker, but I am trying to give him props where due because neither Woz nor Jony Ive’s genius would have seen the light of day without that insufferable ego maniac. Seriously, he’s the only person I know that literally died of hubris.
