German designer Hartmut Esslinger met Steve Jobs in January 1982. Asked what he thought about Apple, he said it was a cool idea, but bad design. "He didn’t like that I said the products were ...

Another Apple alum is unimpressed with the current direction of the company: This time it’s former design contractor Hartmut Esslinger, who helped Steve Jobs create the original Mac in the early 1980s ...

32 experts on the most urgent matters facing designers today Designers from Google, Microsoft, Nike, Pentagram, and more weigh in on the most pressing challenges facing the industry today. Esslinger, ...

Hartmut Esslinger knows a thing or two about industrial design and what it’s done for Apple. He worked directly with Steve Jobs to establish a “design language” that was used on the Macintosh line of ...

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Most people can’t really innovate, says Hartmut Esslinger, founder of frog design. He and his company (now celebrating fifty years in business) helped design Apple’s portable computers, Sony’s Walkman ...

For many years, computers werent designed at all, at least not in the carefully calculated way other products and artifacts of technology are designed. Many of the people who write about computers ...

News: technology giant Apple has lost its vision and has reached creative saturation according to Hartmut Esslinger, the industrial designer hired by Steve Jobs to help transform the brand in the ...

“Smartwatches are stupid,” says Hartmut Esslinger, Apple’s first head of design and creator of the company’s Snow White design language. “Why would I put cheap electronics on my wrist as a symbol of ...

Esslinger, alongside Craig L. Wilkins and others, received National Design Awards today. The National Design Awards have been around for almost 20 years. In that time, the design world has undergone a ...

You can’t always be at the top your game, and Apple is no exception. As we eagerly await today’s WWDC reveals, it’s fun to remember that for every hit there’s a handful of slightly more questionable ...

March 19, 1990: The ultra-fast Macintosh IIfx makes its debut, sporting a hefty price tag appropriate for such a speedy machine. The fastest Macintosh of its day, it boasts a CPU running at a “wicked ...