Scrivs, on engineers and the importance of design.

Since its beginning, Google has been very engineer-driven and it showed in most of their products. They weren’t aesthetically pleasing by nature, but they got the job done. […]

Apple, Facebook and Twitter on the other hand are very designer-driven. […] The difference between these three companies and Google though is that the designers and engineers seem to work in harmony. They understand the importance of the other and great products are produced as a result.