I was invited at Apple during the Interface Design Project 1994. This included a tour of the design department, headed by Robert Brunner. The designs back than were of high quality, yet low “sex-appeal”. I did saw Jonathan Ive (more hair, less muscular) working on projects including the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (which I believe he liked, but was not passionate about).
On the picture you can see Robert Brunner (the head of design at the time).