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Travel back in time: design methods of two billionaire industrialists

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Interactions Volume 15 Issue 3May + June 2008pp 30–33https://doi.org/10.1145/1353782.1353789

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Unlike Ford, Hughes took his planes on tours and to competitions. He focused on design and use, but not on the manufacturing process. Prior to working for him, Hughes's brilliant engineer Glenn "Odie" Odekirk built automobiles and took them on demonstration tours, the common practice that Ford avoided with his laser focus on product improvement and manufacturing efficiency.Google Scholar

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Travel back in time: design methods of two billionaire industrialists
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. History of computing

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Interactions Volume 15, Issue 3
Optimistic futurism
May + June 2008
73 pages
ISSN:1072-5520
EISSN:1558-3449
DOI:10.1145/1353782
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