Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design

Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by anbop on Monday July 15, 2019 @12:39AM (#20438169)

Ultimately, a hit is worth 100 misses and he had 7 colossal hits in his career (Apple II / Mac / NextOS / MacBook / iPod / iPhone / iPad)

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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by scarface74 on Monday July 15, 2019 @04:52PM (#20445156)

I would add two more the iTunes music store and physical apple stores.

The iTunes Music Store not only helped sell the iPod, it was the reason they were able to stand up the App Store so fast. They already had the infrastructure and millions of credit cards on file.

The Apple Stores gave them a direct relationship with customers that meant they weren’t completely beholden to retailers and ttet didn’t have to compete for shelf space. Everyone at the Apple Store knew Apple products.

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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by TickleSteve on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:01AM (#20438271)

Apple II was not Ive, it was Frog Design.

NeXTStep was Steve Jobs, not Ive who was at Apple at that point in time IIRC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_design_language

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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by olivil on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:10AM (#20438301)

Pretty sure the previous comment was talking about Jobs and not Ive.

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