The New Yorker profiles Jony Ive — a good read, albeit a bit long. Worth skimming at least.
Lots of insight on Apple’s design process, but this quote takes the cake for most amusing:
Ive once sat next to J. J. Abrams at a boozy dinner party in New York, and made what Abrams recalled as “very specific” suggestions about the design of lightsabres.
“I thought it would be interesting if it were less precise, and just a little bit more spitty.” A redesigned weapon could be “more analog and more primitive, and I think, in that way, somehow more ominous.”