Steve Jobs A Book by Walter Isaacson en.wikipedia.org You'll know it's thereThe Apple Marketing PhilosophyNot just in the detailsAn icon is a symbol equally incomprehensible in all human languagesIf it could save a person's life, would you find a way to make it faster?+31 More Traditional companies are losing because they mismanage software engineersEulogy for Steve Jobs“Design” is now “Product”
252. Pools of Light Problem Uniform illumination—the sweetheart of the lighting engineers—serves no useful purpose whatsoever. In fact, it destroys the social nature of space, and makes people feel disoriented and unbounded. Solution Place the lights low, and apart, to form individual pools of light which encompass chairs and tables like bubbles to reinforce the social character of the spaces which they form. Remember that you can’t have pools of light without the darker places in between. Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein & Sara Ishikawa, A Pattern Language Lights and lampsFalse train station darknesslight