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pIFortune’s/I A HREF=”http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/technology/1007/gallery.smartest_people_tech.fortune/index.html” 50 Smartest People in Tech/A article highlights individuals in the expected categories of CEO, Analyst, Engineer, Scientist, Academic and, we were pleasantly surprised to see, Designer. /p

pThe entire list is well-worth a gander, although there is no thumbnail gallery so you have to click through all 50 individually; but if you’d like to hone in on the Designer category, their picks are as follows./p

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pA HREF=”http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/technology/1007/gallery.smartest_people_tech.fortune/6.html” Jonathan Ive/A, Apple’s Senior VP of Industrial Design. (You can see our brief recent interview with Ive A HREF=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/core77_speaks_with_jonathan_ive_on_the_design_of_the_iphone_4_material_matters_16817.asp” here/A.)/p

pBRunners-Up:/B/p

pA HREF=”http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/technology/1007/gallery.smartest_people_tech.fortune/7.html” Jan Chipchase/A, frogdesign’s Executive Creative Director Of Global Insights/p

pA HREF=”http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/technology/1007/gallery.smartest_people_tech.fortune/8.html” Indrani Medhi/A, Microsoft Research India’s Associate Researcher, Technology For Emerging Markets Group/p

pA HREF=”http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/technology/1007/gallery.smartest_people_tech.fortune/9.html” Shigeru Miyamoto/A, Nintendo’s Senior Managing Director/p

pA HREF=”http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/technology/1007/gallery.smartest_people_tech.fortune/10.html” Diego Rodriguez/A, IDEO Partner/p

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If you’d like to click through the complete list, A HREF=”http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/technology/1007/gallery.smartest_people_tech.fortune/index.html” start here./Abr /
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