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Apple Hires UI Designer Who Helped Mock Up Leaked Siri Design
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This is in the tradition of Apple. If you have read the Steve Jobs biography there is a story there about Steve walking out in the outer area of Apples HQ when he noticed a rather dejected looking young man sitting in a chair, something about him interested Steve so he introduced himself. This young man was trying to get a job with Apple and couldnt his foot in the door. He explained he knew somebody would hire him if they just looked at what he could do. He demonstrated to Steve what was to become the finger glide feature used in the iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad, and every other smart phone in the known universe. Steve hired him on the spot.
This is in the tradition of Apple. If you have read the Steve Jobs biography there is a story there about Steve walking out in the outer area of Apples HQ when he noticed a rather dejected looking young man sitting in a chair, something about him interested Steve so he introduced himself. This young man was trying to get a job with Apple and couldnt his foot in the door. He explained he knew somebody would hire him if they just looked at what he could do. He demonstrated to Steve what was to become the finger glide feature used in the iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad, and every other smart phone in the known universe. Steve hired him on the spot.
I thought he showed Jobs what would become the magnification feature for the dock and that later on the same guy came up with the rubber band scrolling in iOS.
But yeah, there's a good a chance he could have walked away from Apple and his ideas would have ended up elsewhere, or simply never used at all.
That is right, the key words are "what would become"
Every time I pinch the screen on my iPod Touch I think about the TV show " Kids in The Hall" and "I am pinching heads" Now that has got me thinking is there a "Pinching Heads" app."Rubber band scrolling" that was the term I was looking for thanks.
I just looked through his videos...they are pretty impressive...like his way of faster app switching...seems almost like WebOS.
Very awesome. Congrats to him. With this internship, he can gain access to a full time job at Apple or some other major tech company. Would be even more nice if this is a paid internship.
Congratulations to him! This is fantastic news.
Apple also offered internships and positions to key developers in the jailbreaking community.
To me, it also shows how 'plugged' Apple is, a lot of big corporations suffer from being completely oblivious to the reviews / rants / praises / complaints about their products on the internet, not Apple. I know Microsoft also has been putting a good effort in that so good for them.
I am sure someone from Apple checks Macrumors.com daily :-D
Apple also offered internships and positions to key developers in the jailbreaking community.
To me, it also shows how 'plugged' Apple is, a lot of big corporations suffer from being completely oblivious to the reviews / rants / praises / complaints about their products on the internet, not Apple. I know Microsoft also has been putting a good effort in that so good for them.
I am sure someone from Apple checks Macrumors.com daily :-D
I have a feeling his blog aspirations with dry up after Apple's legal team has him sign the mountain of NDA's waiting for him. Good luck though and way to go Dawgs! Yes I am a University of Georgia Alumni...
Hmm, I'm not sure if you've ever worked at a design-focused company that uses interns, but he won't be doing any UI innovation at Apple. He'll be grabbing coffee and if he's lucky, redoing comps for Apple's actual UI designers. Grunt work.
Sadly, that's the state of internships at corps these days. In the distant past, an internship meant a company was investing in their future, teaching skills like a craftsman would teach an apprentice. But most corporations don't really care about their employees anymore.
good for him having apple on his resume should give him further opportunity in the business easily
however, just bc he can make great UI mock-ups doesnt really mean he has the skills to actually program any of those right? hes probably be consulting them or giving them ideas which they will now feel obligated to take without him getting much credit for it (the disadvantage of being an intern)
however, just bc he can make great UI mock-ups doesnt really mean he has the skills to actually program any of those right? hes probably be consulting them or giving them ideas which they will now feel obligated to take without him getting much credit for it (the disadvantage of being an intern)
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That's a cool opportunity that you're getting. So do your best and try to get a proper job offer at the end! I've been through a fantastic internship at Apple. They will consider you as a real employee. Unfortunately you will realize they have LOTS of interns and few permanent jobs to fulfill. So do your best! Again, congrats!
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That's a cool opportunity that you're getting. So do your best and try to get a proper job offer at the end! I've been through a fantastic internship at Apple. They will consider you as a real employee. Unfortunately you will realize they have LOTS of interns and few permanent jobs to fulfill. So do your best! Again, congrats!
Too bad you won't be able to use this MR account once you start for them. I've heard they crack down on it quite heavily.
I've run commercial pre-press and design departments most of my adult life years ago, and we actually gave our interns work experience. There was no running for coffee, or BS like that, just experience and the passing of knowledge. Sure, some of the mundane day to day was passed to them, but they were always given opportunity to show what they had, and in many cases, we used their ideas, as they worked on it. I can't Apple needing to hire a coffee boy, I'm sure he'll gain some nice experience, and could very well move into a permanent position in Apple. He claims he'll document his experiences (which may hurt him actually) so only time will tell. Id like to THINK Apple is better then most design firms these days.
"I'm in California"
"I just got to Cupertino"
"I got to the front door"
"I'm filling out the paperwork, including something called an NDA"
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(Seven months later)
"Had a great time. My internship just ended."
Yes, giving someone an internship, get them to sign a NDA to plug any leaks, probably cheaper and easier that trying other legal avenues.
I agree that his work is really good. But being very honest myself, I really think he had some information about how Siri would operate.
I mean:
- hold home button
- the exact same mic icon
- an exact pink UI overlay on the mic button
- the way Siri operates in its own view rather than some app in iOS.
I am not really trying to say that he stole it somehow, but this seems like he had some information about the product. On another note, MacRumors gearing up with him urges me to think that there's much more than meets the eye.
Why is everyone so negative?
Even if he only stays at Apple for 7months who cares! do people realize how this looks on you CV leaving college and looking for work
I for one wish him the best of luck in everything he does, he nailed the Siri interface more or less hence Apple are giving him a chance.
In the creative part of the UI/UX business, while certainly not a disadvantage your business resume means little compared to your portfolio. Sit under a rock for ten years and draw up amazing UI/UX designs and/or concepts, and you'll be hired the day you crawl up from under the rock. The same cannot be said about a 7 month internship at wherever. What the 7 month internship gives, that sitting under a rock doesn't however, is contacts (and naturally, mentoring).
I've passed through some big agencies, and I've only seen one instance where a creative intern was given the latitude to put forward ideas that made it into the final product. There's just too much ego. Perhaps Apple's design department works differently. But your experiences sounds like a better age.
Personally (and I'm sorry to say) i found it to be subpar, from a UE perspective. On top, the whole thing - spontaneously - seem awkward (i.e. holding in the start button while swiping). In contrast to the dashboard concept (a Lion adaption that works quite well - i do wonder though, is the dock truly needed?), this seems less (if at all) thought through. For example: On Lion, i have decent control over which applications end up where; while not seeing the space - i know it. The same cannot be said about the iPhone environment; rather than predictability, we get chaos.
Rather then, opt for the WP route (which according to my limited knowledge is basically a minimalist version of WebOS cards). Throw in a swipe-across to close, and done. They could of course go bananas, and add swipe-from-bottom to enter the cards view - but to me, that seems like a waste.
Or, if they want to stick with things they already do: Re-use cover flow. As far as i know, the solution has been implemented successfully in window management on the desktop (Linux? KnightWRX, you should know). No reason to believe it shouldn't do the trick okay here too. Plus, its something Apple users somewhat natively know (i guess). Works very well under the touch paradigm too.
(That said, the way its currently implemented is hardly a hit in my book either.)
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