Me too, UI has taken a usability down-turn under him. Especially iOS.
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Jony Ive Officially Takes 'Chief Design Officer' Title at Apple
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Me too, UI has taken a usability down-turn under him. Especially iOS.
It's amazing how selective the memory of some of the people here is. Very few seem to remember the Cube, the Apple mice, Ping, Cracked Macbooks, Cracked Iphone 3 and 3G, additional content for iTunes movies, maps, iPhone 4 reception problems, MobileMe, Buttonless iPod Shuffle, original iPhone pricing.
Alan Dye really is the one to blame for iOS 7. Look at some of his designs from 2009:
This leads me to believe that Jony Ive actually didn't any responsibility for the icon designs.
Found here:http://www.wired.com/2009/11/st_thompson_startups/
Also note that Apple's page says Dye worked on iOS 7, iOS 8 and watchOS. Not OS X. That may explain why OS X didn't get too strictly minimal and kept some of its soul after Yosemite.
John Gruber says he was involved in Yosemite.
How many levels of design management exist at Apple? Is there a Grand Poobah of Design?
Apple senior executive Jonathan Ive has officially assumed the role of "Chief Design Officer" at Apple effective today, after being promoted from his previous role of "Senior Vice President of Design" nearly six weeks ago. Apple has updated Ive's executive profile on its leadership website to reflect the design chief's new position as Apple's third active C-level executive alongside CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri.
Apple announced in a company-wide email last month that Ive would be promoted to Chief Design Officer on July 1 and turn over his day-to-day management of the company's design teams to Richard Howarth and Alan Dye, who have both been elevated to vice president positions. Ive will remain responsible for all of Apple's design, with a focus on redesigning Apple Stores and other larger projects.Apple has also added executive profile pages for design vice presidents Howarth and Dye.
Ive spoke with The Telegraph journalist Stephen Fry last month about his decision to relinquish some of his control, stating that he is still in charge of Apple's design departments without needing to focus on administrative and management work, responsibilities that will now fall under his lieutenants Howarth and Dye. The move had been widely expected for several years.Ive has been a full-time Apple employee since 1992, and rumors about him scaling back at the company have gained momentum over the years. Ive in the past has expressed his desire to spend more time in his native England, where he grew up, and his promotion will enable him to travel more often and possibly work remotely at times. Ive and his family currently live in an upscale neighborhood in San Francisco.
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Not sure about the image. Looks like he lost a dollar and found a dime.
At first glance I thought these guys should all get at least 20 years in prison.
Relaxed pose or not, there must be some photographers who can shoot better PR pics than that.
As for what Ive does: It's hard to please everybody's taste and that's worldwide, different cultures etc., but his designs are excellent as they are based on the older BRAUN design school of form follows function and simplicity (Forgot the original designers name)
Hope he continues. Don't like everything he does, but say about 90% of what he does is very good and let's not forget there are others involved who don't get the press.
It's easy to criticize other people's work. Unless one can do better it's mostly unfair to do so.
PS: For those who can't read the thin fonts, go to settings. There are options to make sth fonts bold. My 4S has me squint a lot, but that is more due to aging eyes than Ive's redesigns.
My comment that you quoted? No. I genuinely enjoy reading many of the comments that AngerDanger makes.
2 hand agree @Lets face the truth guys. Jony Ive is a worse designer without Steve Jobs. If Steve would be still around there is NO WAY this would be presented on the stage.
jobs beat everybody -
I don't think Jony is responsible that Apple puts form over function lately as these are strategic decisions and therefore are taken or - at least - encouraged from higher levels. FWIW, he has proved his industrial design skills plenty of times with hardware. OTOH having such skills doesn't mean that he will perform equally good in UI design, where different kind of design skills are required.
Regardless, Apple could/should do better with their UI design in both OS X and iOS, IMHO.
Regardless, Apple could/should do better with their UI design in both OS X and iOS, IMHO.
"He hold over 5,000 patents..."
He's invented something completely new everyday, including weekends, for over thirteen years. That's impressive.
He's invented something completely new everyday, including weekends, for over thirteen years. That's impressive.
Rule #1 for moving up in Design at Apple - you aren't allowed to shave
Rule #2, you can't grow a beard
Rule #2, you can't grow a beard
A face begging for a pie.
Apple senior executive Jonathan Ive has officially assumed the role of "Chief Design Officer" at Apple effective today, after being promoted from his previous role of "Senior Vice President of Design" nearly six weeks ago. Apple has updated Ive's executive profile on its leadership website to reflect the design chief's new position as Apple's third active C-level executive alongside CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri.
Apple announced in a company-wide email last month that Ive would be promoted to Chief Design Officer on July 1 and turn over his day-to-day management of the company's design teams to Richard Howarth and Alan Dye, who have both been elevated to vice president positions. Ive will remain responsible for all of Apple's design, with a focus on redesigning Apple Stores and other larger projects.Apple has also added executive profile pages for design vice presidents Howarth and Dye.
Ive spoke with The Telegraph journalist Stephen Fry last month about his decision to relinquish some of his control, stating that he is still in charge of Apple's design departments without needing to focus on administrative and management work, responsibilities that will now fall under his lieutenants Howarth and Dye. The move had been widely expected for several years.Ive has been a full-time Apple employee since 1992, and rumors about him scaling back at the company have gained momentum over the years. Ive in the past has expressed his desire to spend more time in his native England, where he grew up, and his promotion will enable him to travel more often and possibly work remotely at times. Ive and his family currently live in an upscale neighborhood in San Francisco.
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What's very funny. Cultivated stubble. Maybe Jony watches reruns of Miami Vice from the 80's, from which this particular fashion choice became all the rage.
I find it telling that the new VP of User Interface design has a background in Communication Design and Packaging, a fundamentally different type of background then the type of computer scientsists they had doing this type of work before (see Jef Raskin, Bill Atkinson, Scott Forstall, ...). Usability testing is something quite different then minimalistic design, and I fear this guy's instincts will push the balance between usability and simplicity too far towards the latter.
Already today, Apple's software is full of "secret" features which lead to a clean interface but require the user to known some random gesture to trigger a key feature because they didn't want to pollute the screen with it (I'm looking at you, "shake to undo").
Already today, Apple's software is full of "secret" features which lead to a clean interface but require the user to known some random gesture to trigger a key feature because they didn't want to pollute the screen with it (I'm looking at you, "shake to undo").
If the result of hiring and promotion is a not very diverse group, maybe it wasn't pure meritocracy guiding it?
Except that shake to undo was introduced under the supposedly very computer scientist Scott Forstall.
Did you think I believed her single handedly designed all of Apple's products? No, but his design talents did influence the teams who worked under him.
You mean that if you stop paying for Apple Music you won't be able to play the music downloaded from the cloud anymore, the same way you couldn't download your music anymore when you stopped paying for iTunes Match?
People like you are the reason why most corporations suck. Apple was special because SJ stuck to his core values even as Apple expanded and never lost sight of the small things.