Office Tour: Pixar Headquarters and the Legacy of Steve Jobs

Bruce Henderson, the founder of the Boston Consulting Group, introduced the classic management-consulting framework of the growth-share matrix in 1970,

they reviewed work, they decided whether a design might pass muster with Steve while also estimating whether Henri’s programming team could implement the idea in a high-performance, bug-free manner given the remaining time in the schedule.

A lot of companies start the design process by blocking things out with wireframes, like, the contact list goes here, and there’s a big wireframe with an X through it. Apple would start with these gorgeous mock-ups in Photoshop and Flash—or Shockwave at the time. There’s no code behind it, and you can only do one thing, but you get the feel.