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Designing for Space: NASA's Industrial Designers

Posted November 14, 2008 9:01 AM

From mental_floss Blog:

Design magazine Core77 sent the intrepid Glen Jackson Taylor inside NASA, to learn how the organization handles industrial design — the process of designing the usable and beautiful devices. But when Taylor arrived, he found a surprise: "There isn't really a place for industrial designers at NASA," he wrote. "Here the engineers are considered the designers, and the team has only been able to exist under the guise of human factors, a quantifiable soft science that is acknowledged as necessary." So how does NASA design such iconic rovers, landers, the Space Shuttle, rockets, and so on?

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