Jonathan Ive
Jonathan Ive
Sir Jonathan Paul "Jony" Ive, KBE is a British industrial designer who is currently the Chief Design Officerof Apple Inc. He oversees the Apple Industrial Design Group and also provides leadership and direction for Human Interface software teams across the company. Ive is the designer of many of Apple's products, including the MacBook Pro, iMac, MacBook Air, Mac mini, iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini, Apple Watch, and iOS...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDesigner
aware design designer designers irritates products
It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.
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It is sad that so many designers don't know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It is sad that four years can be spent on a 3D design course without making anything! People who are great at designing and making have a great advantage.
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Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.
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Apple's Industrial Design team is harder to get into than the Illuminati, and part of the reason is because no one leaves. In the last 15 years, not one of the 18 designers has ditched Apple for greener pastures.
design nobody small work
I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left.
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The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design.
apples goal design
Goal we've always had for design at Apple is to create solutions that are inevitable.
philosophical mean design
Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.
greed design care
As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed.
apples design alternatives
The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative in a complacent and creatively bankrupt industry. Apple stood for something and had reason for being that wasn't just about making money.
design prototype ifs
If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.
design age wanted
I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.
design made inseparable
Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made.
people design trying
We’re keenly aware that when we develop and make something and bring it to market that it really does speak to a set of values. And what preoccupies us is that sense of care, and what our products will not speak to is a schedule, what our products will not speak to is trying to respond to some corporate or competitive agenda. We’re very genuinely designing the best products that we can for people.