Neils Diffrient: Rethinking the way we sit down

     After watching the video of Neils Diffrient: Rethinking the way we sit down and listening to his story it left me with a sense of admiration for him.  You can tell that he was passionate about his work.  When he was talking about engineering and designing planes he kept referring to it as a romance.  He loved everything about flying down to the smallest detail and he brought that love into his work and designs.  When he was done working on planes he started thinking about the countless number of people who are either in offices or sit behind desks or computers all day and night.  He brought that same aspect of romance into his designs for his chairs.  He spent about 8 or 9 years trying to design a chair to accommodate the majority of people.  He also tried to make them do as much as mechanically possible without having to adjust all sorts of knobs or levels.  One might conclude that if all designs had that element of romance to them that they would be well designed.