The New Yorker profile of Jony Ive:

Later that day, I asked Ive about an Apple design that shares the new campus’s formal simplicity: the circular “hockey puck” mouse that was included with the first iMacs. Many found it hard to control, and it is widely considered a design failure. Ive didn’t accept that description. He referred to different schools of thought about arms, wrists, and mice. “Everything we make I could describe as being partially wrong, because it’s not perfect,” he said, and he described the wave of public complaint that accompanies every release. He went on, “We get to do it again. That’s one of the things Steve and I used to talk about: ‘Isn’t this fantastic? Everything we aren’t happy about, with this, we can try and fix.’ ”

“The trouble with the Scandinavian model isn’t that there are no exceptions to sameness; it’s that exceptionalism is not something the system is set up to protect and serve. If, like the non-Western Muslims of Rosengård, you have trouble joining the national schools and domestic culture—if you can’t quite fall in with the color blindness of Icona Pop and Nico & Vinz—you tend to fall from the system’s providence. Autonomy and individualism abound, but pockets of difference can become pockets of disadvantage. What Nordic life tells us, in other words, is how steep and ambitious the path of American liberalism is.”