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- roxgod666, on 02/06/2009, -4/+36Let me tell you about my digg commenting process.
First, I take a few hours brainstorming ideas of what to comment about.
Then, I create 10 entirely different comments about the topic.
After that, I close my eyes and pick the first comment i lay eyes on and submit.
Finally, i login with my 27 different accounts and digg the comment up to make it an official success. - lnfiniteLoop, on 02/05/2009, -5/+32this article is a year old
- digitalpencil, on 02/05/2009, -5/+26I'd love to wander through Cupertino's R&D department.. I imagine it to be something like the basement in Wayne Tower, only shiny and all white.
- inactive, on 02/06/2009, -1/+11Buried for being about as in depth as my bath.
I suspect their is a little more going in than 3 steps. A flow chart to apple products? If that was the case, windows stuff would look pretty and work.
Sure. - omaryak, on 02/06/2009, -0/+6I was expecting a tank of dolphins with beach balls
- jtbandes, on 02/06/2009, -1/+6Wait, you lost me at the "not magicland" part...
- jayzeus, on 02/06/2009, -3/+6Or some sort of cubicle something, just like any other office :-P. It's apple, not magicland....
- ethana2, on 02/06/2009, -0/+3WHOOSH
- Chirp08, on 02/06/2009, -0/+2Actually that is still really cool, if you read the comments. Everything is prototyped in house and new materials are constantly tried and tested. Seems like it must be an amazingly fun job for the engineers when the sky is the limit in R&D.
- Sagags, on 02/05/2009, -1/+3stfu?
- trollick, on 02/06/2009, -0/+2I use the same rigorous process writing my comments.
- HookmasterCH47, on 02/05/2009, -0/+2Yeah, i've read this talk at SXSW several times now.
People always seem surprised that Apple has a rigorous design process, but what do you expect, they are a business afterall. They operate in a similar fashion to the top design studios as well. - mrBitch, on 02/06/2009, -0/+2You didn't read the article.
FTA :
"Apple designers come up with 10 entirely different mock ups of any new feature.
Not, Lopp said, "seven in order to make three look good", which seems to be a fairly standard practice elsewhere. " - Chirp08, on 02/06/2009, -0/+21. What the ***** are you talking about? Silver keys with black letters means even if the keys reflect like a mirror the letters themselves won't making them clearly visible.
2. The wireless and wired keyboards are aluminum with white keys..
3. Turn on your system and hold down eject, the disc will eject before OSX even begins booting. If it doesn't eject the last thing you should be worrying about is ejecting a disc and more so what you ***** up so bad that you can't boot at all.
4. Finder sucks, there are alternatives, and everyone uses Spotlight anyway.
5. What? - ScottBookG4, on 02/06/2009, -0/+2I like the part where he says "*****." God, Apple is SO cool...
- itsbob, on 02/06/2009, -0/+2Not R&D
- Dylson, on 02/06/2009, -0/+2So?
- adampoit, on 02/07/2009, -0/+1Simplified Apple design process:
1. Idea comes to mind
2. 10 mock-ups of the idea are created
3. Steve Jobs walks into the room, throws something heavy down on the table, and screams, "IT NEEDS LESS BUTTONS!"
4. Repeat - Subcide, on 02/07/2009, -0/+1Michael Lopp has been giving this presentation for at least a year at conferences around the world. The headline should be "Apple Evangelist reveals only what Apple wants you to know about their design process, knowing perfectly well that virtually no other company could get away with doing pixel perfect mockups and 10 completely different interface designs for every interface problem."
And that, is why im not a journalist. - warragul, on 02/06/2009, -0/+1It shows, brother, it shows.
- digitalhippie, on 02/07/2009, -0/+1If you really want to know about Apple's design process then I suggest reading "Inside Steve's Brain". Its a great book and discusses everything about how Apple and Steve ticks.
- inactive, on 02/06/2009, -0/+1I thought it was funny.
- inactive, on 02/06/2009, -0/+1haha
- vertigelt, on 02/06/2009, -0/+1yeah; SXSW is in March. Either it's old, it's an article from the future.
- roxgod666, on 02/06/2009, -0/+1No, no i think he sensed the sarcasm.
- jeexbit, on 02/06/2009, -0/+1or maybe more like Willy Wonka's place...
- jasonh1234, on 02/06/2009, -0/+1I hear it was used to film the final shot in Raiders of the lost ark of the Warehouse.
- pandaxrage, on 02/06/2009, -1/+2lrn2sarcasm?
- ethana2, on 02/07/2009, -0/+1IS NAHT A TUMAH!
- mrBitch, on 02/06/2009, -0/+1@ digitalpencil RE: "I'd love to wander through Cupertino's R&D department.. I imagine it to be something like the basement in Wayne Tower, only shiny and all white."
How's the reality of Apple's R&D dept compare with your imagination? :
http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/blog/inside-apple/ - bowlagoat, on 02/10/2009, -0/+1A work of art is the result of the creative process called art.
- Chirp08, on 02/06/2009, -0/+1The beach balls only show up when they are thinking really hard.
- suntzusputnik, on 02/06/2009, -0/+1so is my niece
- digitalpencil, on 02/06/2009, -0/+1@jayzeus: shatter my dreams why don't you.. ;(
- jamaph, on 02/07/2009, -1/+1I dunno...
Think about it. There are a lot of profitable art works... Think about it. - bowlagoat, on 02/06/2009, -4/+4Art is a process not a product.
- chesterjosiah, on 02/06/2009, -1/+1I didn't notice.
- pandaxrage, on 02/06/2009, -2/+2Well you all bitch about Apple every day of every minute, so I figured I'd get it out of the way for you.
- osabr22000, on 02/06/2009, -1/+1I was hoping for a MacTumor... just can't wait for SteveO to design and install some cancer for me.
- Y0tsuya, on 02/06/2009, -9/+9Lately they just come up with a single mockup and paint it 10 different colors.
- jschn04, on 02/07/2009, -0/+0Very cool - a good blend of creativity and analytics it seems.
- rkho, on 02/06/2009, -2/+1I don't get it, that's like... all of two products they offer, the iPod nano and iPod shuffle. And the Shuffle has all of five colors, not ten. Are you in the wrong thread?
- inactive, on 02/06/2009, -2/+1oh man am i not laughing out loud.
let me tell you how little of a laughing out loud boy i am.
man i am a laughing out loud boy. - robbob, on 02/06/2009, -2/+1its new to me
- Wargala, on 02/06/2009, -4/+0And they count on suckers like you.
- milkmit, on 02/06/2009, -8/+4Yet they still somehow come up with ***** design decisions like making the F keys on the slightly older wireless keyboards directly against the number keys and without spaces between groups of four, so rather than being able to feel where you are as you press them, you have to look and hunt certain keys because there's not enough cues to help tell them apart.
....or making the older MBP keyboard freaking silver, which reflects the white screen above it when using it in a dark room, rendering the glowing white letters/numbers totally useless as the glowing light is lost in the light of the reflection.
....or making those ugly tiny little new wireless keyboards (which, thankfully, DO have black keys).
....or not having any mechanical way to eject a CD/DVD from the drive like you used to be able to with a pin (for when the OS won't boot).
....or making that monstrousity of a file manager that is Finder (cmon, guys, even Microsoft has been doing it way better for years).
....or creating Aperture...which is a damn powerful program, but just has so many damn backwards-feeling, unintuitive functions and features that just don't work like you'd expect them to. - nickarodriguez, on 02/06/2009, -11/+6No, they design 3 without replaceable batteries and the other 7 with a replaceable batteries. Then they say, yah "Steve would hate that" and are down to 3 choices.
- factsahoy, on 02/06/2009, -6/+1It's a cube farm, and not a particularly nice one at that.
- garryw, on 02/05/2009, -14/+9Hey, lets have a meeting to figure out if we can put an Intel CPU and Nvidia graphics chip in a big aluminum box and call it our "pony"
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