Google design guru puts people and nature before technology

In San Francisco, he is one of the heads of industrial design at Google - which also manufactures objects, especially phones. But this native of Meggen, on the shores of Lake Lucerne, is anything but a technology addict. SWI swissinfo.ch met with Claude Zellweger. “We're a low-tech family,” Zellweger says. “In 26 years in California, I've never had a television, and my children don't play video games, or at least very rarely.” Zellweger is facing the imposing structure of the Bay Bridge, which links San Francisco to Oakland. On a mild September afternoon, we're standing next to the Ferry Building, where the boats that cross the bay still dock, and where Market Street, one of the city's main thoroughfares, begins. Google has opened an office complex in a 43-floor tower here. With his Californian wife and their 14-year-old twins, Claude Zellweger refuses to “surround himself with technological gadgets” apart, of course, from the indispensable phone. He is, he says, “the exact...