Mr. Kanada's team spent five years designing the program used, Mr. Kudo said.
After joining Restoration, Mr. Friedman spent five years designing and building his dream house — "a classical villa but with a modern point of view," he said — in Marin.
Blizzard Entertainment spent millions of dollars and more than five years designing a vast, ambitious video game only to realize that it wasn't fun.
This is because the coalition government seem to have spent the last five years designing a country with which to provoke a mental health crisis, while simultaneously hacking away at the safety net you need to deal with one.
SUNSAT produced data for two years (design life was one year) and ceased to transmit in January 2001.
He returned to the Polytechnic to train in fine art and, after labouring jobs, found work as a draughtsman and designer of shop window displays before spending two years designing exhibition stands at Olympia.
"We've spent three years designing an entirely new headphone.
He has been at it since graduating from the Yale School of Drama in the 1970's, shortly after which he spent eight years designing for the Circle Repertory Theater company.
He and his friend David Schwartz spent six years designing an elaborate model of Utopia, with concrete buildings, running water and futuristic design.
Yet with product development cycles of up to two years, designing a phone for the rapidly changing tastes of American teenagers can be as tricky as doing a kickflip on a moving skateboard.
The chairman of India's Tata Motors, Ratan Tata, had 500 engineers work for four years designing the world's lowest-cost car, convinced that cost-conscious Indian drivers could live without air-conditioning and cup holders.
