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ID:406
Title:Kottke
URL:http://www.kottke.org/
Category:Arts, Art & Artists: Design
Description:A freelance Web designer writes about design, food, Weblogs, and living in New York City.
Updates on previous entries for Feb 7, 2012* - 2012-02-08 06:11:02

One athlete plays for your soul orig. from Feb 07, 2012

* Q: Wha? A: These previously published entries have been updated with new information in the last 24 hours. You can find past updates here.

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Apple's first designer - 2012-02-08 01:42:18

Speaking of Apple, here's a profile of Jerry Manock, who worked for Apple from 1977 to 1984 and designed the case for the Apple II and helped design the Macintosh. Manock was Jobs' first Jony Ive.

The whole basis of the class I've taught at UVM for 21 years is ... integrated product development, which means concurrently looking at all of these things: the aesthetics, the engineering, the marketing ... which is what we were doing at Apple. Not necessarily purposefully, but everybody was just thrown together... I would walk through the software place and look around and see what people were doing ... walk through the marketing area. I had my drawings all on the walls, so anybody could come up. There was a red pencil hanging there. I'd say, "If you see something you don't like, or is a problem -- I don't care whether it's a janitor or Steve -- write the correction, circle it, put your phone there and I'll call you and we'll talk about it."

(thx, mike)

Tags: Apple   design   Jerry Manock   Steve Jobs

Your not-so-secret iPhone address book - 2012-02-07 21:48:00

I take this to mean that any iPhone app can download your address book to their servers? What. The. Hell! Apple?

Upon inspecting closer, I noticed that my entire address book (including full names, emails and phone numbers) was being sent as a plist to Path. Now I don't remember having given permission to Path to access my address book and send its contents to its servers, so I created a completely new "Path" and repeated the experiment and I got the same result - my address book was in Path's hands.

Tags: Apple   iPhone   privacy