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What?! NOW they want to hire design engineers?

Story: Canonical Hires Designers for UbuntuTotal Replies: 10
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BernardSwiss

May 18, 2012
2:33 AM EDT 		Shouldn't they have done that BEFORE putting out Unity?

(Sorry -- cheap shot, but couldn't resist)
montezuma

May 18, 2012
9:18 AM EDT 		Bling Bling!

(Another cheap shot)
Khamul

May 18, 2012
12:42 PM EDT 		This has nothing to do with design engineers. The article says they're looking for designers, mainly UI designers. UI designers aren't "engineers" any more than fashion designers or interior decorators are.
Fettoosh

May 18, 2012
1:43 PM EDT 		@Khamul,

You need to get with the time, they have been prompted to a higher status, and hence called engineers. :-)
helios

May 18, 2012
2:24 PM EDT 		I Think Bernard raises a good point, and most of us took it as redundant.

Now they call in designers to dress up the urban blight of Unity.....I cease now to be amazed..
flufferbeer

May 18, 2012
3:35 PM EDT 		+1 and RIGHT ON on hellios!

As I wrote before, Baboontu is kindness towards Primates and humanity towards others. Designer-dressing that naked monkey can't change its basic nature.

2c
tuxchick

May 18, 2012
5:41 PM EDT 		I'm pretty sure they already had a design staff. Something must have happened to them.
tracyanne

May 18, 2012
5:59 PM EDT 		The acid wore off.
gus3

May 18, 2012
6:20 PM EDT 		It was brown acid, clearly.
BernardSwiss

May 18, 2012
6:39 PM EDT 		Well, I had been wondering if (as seems fairly likely) they already had a design staff -- in which case the question would seem to be: why do they need so many new ones, all at once?
HoTMetaL

May 19, 2012
2:29 AM EDT 		To help move window control buttons back to the right.

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