I know it’s an oversimplification, but these exchanges often make me wonder about confusions between design and styling. And the strange sense, that can come from that, of the build and design processes of something being somehow in competition…

In all the design areas I’ve ever engaged with, whether the outcomes have been visual, spatial, temporal, behavioural… it’s always really been about what a thing actually is and does, not what it looks like. When designed properly, it’s always going to end up looking like something that is and does that particular thing, in that particular way, even if you’ve never seen one of those things before...

It’s not that both the engineering and design need to be good, they actually need to be the same thing.