The N-Gage Joke Design
Have I ever told you guys the story behind the N-Gage? I worked with an engineer who was on that team. The whole project was mismanaged to fucking hell and was basically Nokia going "video games?" and then "but we make cell phones" and the guys in charge were told to shove a Gameboy in a cell phone The industrial engineer kept on sending professionals to upper management over and over and they kept getting rejected for not having enough buttons and by the end it needed like 25 buttons to please them so the dude, as a stress relief thing, made a joke throwaway design and then shortly afterwards, changed projects. When he found out management accepted the joke design, he was scared for his life, because he was afraid everyone would realize that the finished N-Gage design was actually based on gotcha. Nobody spotted it.
A screenshot tells the story of how Nokia’s N-Gage supposedly evolved from a joke design made after management demanded more buttons. The punchline is that the bizarre phone’s final design was allegedly based on the throwaway joke, and nobody noticed. It is sent as a reaction to absurd corporate decisions and accidentally successful bad ideas.
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