Steve Jobs

I grew up watching what he made and studying how obsessive he was about detail. That obsession was contagious—you’d look at your own work and suddenly small things mattered more. In design, you can’t escape his influence. The whole idea of stripping things down, of letting empty space matter as much as the object itself, changed what people expect from the things they touch. When he died, it wasn’t like everything stopped. It was more that you realized how much of how you worked had come from watching him.