Tilt’s Tim Phillips on technology and the essence of industrial design

Timothy Alouani-Roby: A lot of your work, and industrial design in general, seems to come back to this distinction between aesthetics and functionality. How important is this balance?One of the underlying premises of industrial design is that it’s human-centred design. It’s looking at factors that improve the usability of a product or improve engagement with it, as opposed to an architectural or construction discipline which may have different priorities.Industrial design is a proces