Nokia: Culture will out
Designers are also, by training and predilection, inclined to design for the usual, where engineers are taught a kind of rigor that compels them to account for, and overweight, low-probability events.
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Lots of interesting observations on Nokia culture from a former employee.
But my favourite is quoted above: it perfectly explains most of the conflicts between designers and developers I've witnessed (or participated in), ever.