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Apple Announces Upcoming Departure of Lead Product Designer Evans Hankey
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Great! The design philosophy in the last few years has been to make the products ugly so they would stand out from the competition.
I don't know. I don't care about iPad/iPhone/iWatch... but I like the MacBook and other Macs and I think that these have significantly improved over the last 2 years.
For the most part she’s done a really good job with hardware. It’s the software team that needs to be replaced. A loss for Apple I think
Meh, they've lost all kinds of folks in the past and it hasn't made a massive impact. Any large organization should be able to handle the departure of anyone.
she's responsible for the airpods max case BTW. that was disgusting
I think the trashcan Mac Pro design would work well for the Mac Studio though I was hoping they would bring back the cube in metal form.
At first I thought, what a preposterous comment. Then thinking about it, what designer wants to be stuck designing and redesigning the same slab of glass year in year out. The last great innovating industrial design feat was the AirPods Max.
No. That was a relatively recent move. They used to answer directly to the CEO
the Industrial Design team at Apple is a relatively small team so no, there are not plenty of people there.
Three CDOs in three years, huh ...?? 🤷🏻😢
Doesn't sound like things are too stable over at the Mothership ....
But whatever: AppleVR better come out in January like Kuo said.
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Doesn't sound like things are too stable over at the Mothership ....
But whatever: AppleVR better come out in January like Kuo said.
🙏🏻🤞🏻🥲
Given the state of Apple's UI design these days, maybe he should leave
So what exactly are you looking for? They’re already working on a foldable phone, about to release a VR headset that will lead the market, and are probably developing a bloody car. They gave us FaceID, foresaw the demise of the headphone jack and the SIM slot (in spite of all the whining), and delevoped the soon-to-be-widely-copied Dynamic Island as an entirely novel interactive screen domain which simultaneously hides the front subsystems. You want a triangular iMac? An iPhone that has holes for sparklers? An iPad that crumples up into a tiny ball?
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That’s the problem with minimalism as a design ethos - once you’ve pared down and cleaned up and polished your design - where do you go? You could go a step too far along the minimalist trajectory and start eliminating features that matter to the fundamental functionality of the device, effectively making the product worse in the interest of visual purity. But the people buying and using the devices may not be altogether happy, which harms the bottom line, if nothing else.
What you probably should do is to give attention to the not-directly-outward-facing aspects. What materials are available, what screen or battery technologies are on the horizon, can internal space be better utilized, can structural integrity be maintained or even improved using less material and/or at lower weight? Sometimes this may yield outwardly noticeable results as well.
Whether you find that interesting as a product designer depends on the individual, I guess.
PRECISELY.
When the maps debacle happened a few years back,
everybody was screaming & yelling at the design team.
But NOBODY, correctly, said:
"Hey, isn't Tim the last guy between Apple and a Best Buy shelf ...?
How in hell did he let this out in this condition ...?"
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agreed with everything about studio and trashcan. i recently bought a mbp with touchbar b/c new mbp's literally look old! the old design with touchbar looked more modern. studio looked fugly and chunky old box.
They need to get rid of Alan Dye, the man is terrible at design.
Dynamic Island is a distracting piece of garbage.
Notification Center swiping up from the bottom portion of the Lock Screen is one of the dumbest things Apple has ever done.
Im embarrassed they have such incompetency.
I can design astronomically better, and everyone would benefit.
They lost simplicity and are now pure complexity. Simplicity is intelligent design, complexity is stupidity in design. A famous quote from Albert Einstein; “If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”
That quote is stating exactly Apple’s design problem; they don’t understand it, so it’s complex, rather than simple. The most-intelligent designs from Apple are the ones that a 5-year-old knows and an 85-year-old knows. Simplicity.
Dynamic Island is a distracting piece of garbage.
Notification Center swiping up from the bottom portion of the Lock Screen is one of the dumbest things Apple has ever done.
Im embarrassed they have such incompetency.
I can design astronomically better, and everyone would benefit.
They lost simplicity and are now pure complexity. Simplicity is intelligent design, complexity is stupidity in design. A famous quote from Albert Einstein; “If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”
That quote is stating exactly Apple’s design problem; they don’t understand it, so it’s complex, rather than simple. The most-intelligent designs from Apple are the ones that a 5-year-old knows and an 85-year-old knows. Simplicity.
Yet here you are patting yourself on the back again instead of doing design work for a Fortune 500 company. Still waiting for you to show us any previous work of yours to back this up
If only all the „experts“ in this thread could be bothered to apply for a job in Cupertino … the golden age of Apple design would finally begin to happen.
People keep saying here "Ive would never have done this" when a new design comes out for something. And now it is Ive's designs? Please pick one, people!
The number of people commenting on this article about a HE and not a SHE, just shows how many people comment without even reading the article they are commenting on.
I think it was only 1 or 2 that messed that up, and yes they should've read the article or even just the caption. But the vast majority of the comments are people correcting them 15 times.