Creative Selection
Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
-
-
4,5 • 11 Bewertungen
-
-
- 5,99 €
-
- 5,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
‘Kocienda reveals the real secret of Steve Jobs's leadership and Apple's magic’ – Kim Scott, bestselling author of Radical Candor
A Wall Street Journal bestseller.
An inside account of Apple's creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs.
'If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to work in a hotbed of innovation, you’ll enjoy this inside view of life at Apple. Ken Kocienda pioneered the iPhone keyboard, and this book gives a play-by-play of their creative process – from generating ideas to doing a demo for Steve Jobs.'
Adam Grant, bestselling author of Originals
Hundreds of millions of people use Apple products every day; several thousand work on Apple's campus in Cupertino, California; but only a handful sit at the drawing board. Creative Selection recounts the life of one of the few who worked behind the scenes, a highly-respected software engineer who worked in the final years of the Steve Jobs era, the Golden Age of Apple.
Ken Kocienda offers an inside look at Apple’s creative process. For fifteen years, he was on the ground floor of the company as a specialist, directly responsible for experimenting with novel user interface concepts and writing powerful, easy-to-use software for products including the iPhone, the iPad and the Safari web browser. His stories explain the symbiotic relationship between software and product development for those who have never dreamed of programming a computer, and reveal what it was like to work on the cutting edge of technology at one of the world's most admired companies.
Kocienda shares moments of struggle and success, crisis and collaboration, illuminating each with lessons learned over his Apple career. He introduces the essential elements of innovation, inspiration, collaboration, craft, diligence, decisiveness, taste, and empathy, and uses these as a lens through which to understand productive work culture.
An insider's tale of creativity and innovation at Apple, Creative Selection shows readers how a small group of people developed an evolutionary design model, and how they used this methodology to make groundbreaking and intuitive software which countless millions use every day.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Anyone curious about the roots of Apple's status as the first trillion-dollar company would be well advised to pick up this book. Kocienda, former principal engineer of iPhone software for Apple, ably explains the company's development philosophy through a series of vignettes covering the creation of the Safari web browser and the design of the on-screen keyboards for the iPhone and iPad. Starting by listing "seven essential elements to Apple's software success" (including collaboration, decisiveness, and taste), Kocienda immediately cautions the reader that "there weren't any signs affixed to the walls of our Cupertino campus exhorting us to Collaborate!' On the contrary, we felt, on an instinctive level, that a fixed methodology might snuff out the innovation we were seeking." This flexible approach, Kocienda shows, was key to the success of Apple's tightly integrated combination of hardware and software. He also emphasizes Steve Jobs's insistence that the company "make extremely advanced products from a technology point of view, but also have them be intuitive, easy to use, fun to use, so that they really fit the users." Kocienda's account of how, painstakingly, this goal was achieved will be of deep interest to software engineers as well as the casual computer buff keen on gaining insight into Apple's unprecedented success.
Kundenrezensionen
A treasure chest for developers and managers
If you're looking for light entertainment or sensational revelation, this book is not for you.
Most of us developers use frameworks to achieve our goals quickly and reliably. Very few are able or have the opportunity to develop components that make something completely new possible, such as developing a keyboard on which the operation of a new product category is based. Creating such foundations, that last for decades, is probably one of the greatest awards that a developer can win.
Even for me as a very experienced developer, reading and understanding was sometimes hard work.
I had to read and think through certain sections several times, often becoming aware of my own mistakes.
Such star ratings are quickly clicked, but say nothing as long as you do not share your rating criteria.
I give 5 stars because of the insights and thoughts I can take with me.
Thank you for the time you invested and for sharing.
Volker