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Tag: industrial design

Apple’s VP of Industrial Design: iPhone color palette inspired by gemstones

Tuesday, November 3, 2020 4:02 pm2 Comments

Design details of Apple’s new iPhone 12 family include key updates alongside a refreshing new gemstone-inspired color palette…

Apple’s post-Jony Ive hardware designs: Function over form

Monday, April 13, 2020 4:27 pm11 Comments

Less than ten months have passed since the renowned Jony Ive stepped down as Apple’s Chief Design Officer to start a new company – LoveFrom – that will…

Looking forward to an Apple without Jony Ive

Thursday, November 21, 2019 10:45 amThursday, November 21, 201910 Comments

In June, Jony Ive announced he’s parting ways with Apple to form an independent firm…

With Jony Ive gone, Apple is finally willing to make products thicker so they work better

Wednesday, November 13, 2019 12:01 pmWednesday, November 13, 201921 Comments

Under Jony Ive, Apple seemed obsessed with creating really thin devices but now…

Apple’s likely next CEO is more Tim Cook than Steve Jobs – and that’s bad news

Monday, August 5, 2019 2:22 pm17 Comments

Let me be the first to say that Tim Cook has done a superb job at Apple…


Apple doubled design team staffing plans ahead of Jony Ive’s departure

Thursday, August 1, 2019 4:32 pmThursday, August 1, 201918 Comments

Apple posted fewer jobs in roles like Marketing and Corporate Functions over the course of 2019…

‘LoveFrom Jony’ trademark filed as Ive exits Apple to launch independent design firm

Wednesday, July 24, 2019 3:52 pm1 Comment

Last month, Apple announced that Jony Ive would be leaving the company to form his own independent design firm…

Jeff Williams, Apple’s heir apparent, is much more like Tim Cook than Steve Jobs

Monday, July 22, 2019 8:25 am12 Comments

When Apple announced the pending departure of Chief Design Officer Jony Ive last month, it threw the spotlight on an executive…

On the Mac Pro, the G4 Cube and their shared vent design

Tuesday, June 18, 2019 7:12 pmWednesday, June 19, 20194 Comments

It seems that the vents on the new Mac Pro came from a design rooted in the era of the G4 Cube, nearly 20 years ago…

Former Apple VP: I wrote the book on user-friendly design and what I see today horrifies me

Thursday, May 9, 2019 4:31 pm16 Comments

Take the screen design for Apple’s phones. The designers at Apple apparently believe that text is ugly, so…

Apple’s famous design team now has no original members left

Friday, May 3, 2019 10:33 am8 Comments

Recent departures from Apple’s Industrial Design group mean that no one remains from the original group…

Another Apple industrial designer leaves company

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 9:44 amFriday, May 3, 20191 Comment

Airbnb’s offshoot design studio Samara has hired Apple industrial designer Miklu Silvant…

Significant turnover hits Jony Ive’s famed industrial design team at Apple

Thursday, April 25, 2019 6:37 pm19 Comments

Apple Inc.’s close-knit industrial design team is undergoing its most pronounced turnover in decades…

Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple’s next-gen iPhones will have significantly larger batteries

Monday, April 1, 2019 5:28 pmMonday, April 1, 20197 Comments

Apple’s 2019 iPhone lineup could include new iPhone models with significantly more battery capacity…

Apple successfully builds new products from the bones of old ones

Friday, March 22, 2019 4:01 pmFriday, March 22, 20196 Comments

Apple may have its fair share of new and updated devices, but it’s also made a habit of…

Wishlist for Apple’s 2019 iMac: Updated design, touch support, budget-friendly

Tuesday, March 5, 2019 3:03 pmTuesday, March 5, 201911 Comments

Apple released the current sleek iMac design in 2012 at its yearly October Mac/iPad event…

Energizer’s new Android phone has an 18,000 mAh battery. Yes, it’s a wee bit thick

Tuesday, February 26, 2019 10:32 amTuesday, February 26, 20199 Comments

The Energizer Power Max P18K Pop promises up to fifty days of standby time between charges

2019 iPhone could deliver big upgrades where it matters most

Friday, January 18, 2019 4:25 pmFriday, January 18, 201910 Comments

This year’s iPhone refresh will bring big upgrades for some of the handset’s most important features…

The design nightmare that is the Apple TV Siri Remote

Saturday, January 12, 2019 10:41 am60 Comments

I’ve been an Apple guy since the beginning. My first laptop was a Powerbook 100 with a built-in plastic trackball…

Can never be too thin? Battery-life of iPhones getting worse with each generation

Friday, November 2, 2018 2:02 pm31 Comments

It’s not a problem specific to iPhones, but something seen with Android flagships too…

Jony Ive: Apple is exciting and extraordinary

Tuesday, October 16, 2018 8:58 am16 Comments

The energy and vitality and sense of opportunity…

Sir Jony Ive awarded 2018 Stephen Hawking fellowship

Thursday, September 27, 2018 10:25 amThursday, September 27, 20187 Comments

Ive, chief design officer at Apple Inc. and chancellor at the Royal College of Art in London…

Apple’s MacBook butterfly switch keyboards target of second class action lawsuit

Wednesday, May 23, 2018 10:55 amSaturday, June 23, 201815 Comments

Customer complaints over Apple’s butterfly keyboard have again turned into legal action…

Apple hit with class action suit over MacBook, MacBook Pro butterfly switch keyboard failures

Saturday, May 12, 2018 11:49 am17 Comments

A class action lawsuit filed in federal court on Friday takes Apple to task over an allegedly flawed keyboard design…

Report: Butterfly MacBook Pro keyboards require more frequent, more expensive repairs

Tuesday, May 8, 2018 11:28 amTuesday, May 8, 201812 Comments

These keyboards already have plenty of detractors….

MacBook Pro users petition Apple to recall and replace defective butterfly keyboards

Thursday, May 3, 2018 1:33 pmThursday, May 3, 201811 Comments

If the latest iPhone battery replacement controversy hadn’t generated enough bad publicity for Apple…

Apple’s MacBook Pro keyboards said to be failing twice as frequently as older design

Tuesday, May 1, 2018 1:05 pm25 Comments

Apple launched its new butterfly key-switch keyboard with the MacBook…

MacBook Pro: The butterfly keyboard effect

Thursday, April 26, 2018 11:28 amThursday, April 26, 201828 Comments

This keyboard has to be one of the biggest design screwups in Apple history…

Apple’s next iPhone doesn’t need to be faster or thinner

Monday, April 23, 2018 10:44 amMonday, April 23, 201857 Comments

It’s clear that engineering is taking a backseat to design over at Apple HQ…

Apple has an iPhone design problem it’s getting harder to solve

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 11:02 amTuesday, April 17, 201817 Comments

Apple made waves in 2016 when it decided to get rid of the iPhone’s headphone jack…

Naomi Campbell interviews Jony Ive

Monday, April 2, 2018 9:58 amMonday, April 2, 20188 Comments

I’m on the outskirts of Cupertino in California, visiting a gargantuan building that looks like a spaceship…

Volkswagen looks to Apple for electric-car design guidance

Friday, February 16, 2018 9:29 am17 Comments

Volkswagen is looking at Apple products for guidance on how to style its new generation of electric car…

Former Apple exec: The pipeline that Steve Jobs started is over, Apple has fundamentally changed

Monday, July 17, 2017 11:19 amMonday, July 17, 201722 Comments

Samsung Electronics Co.’s newest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, grew longer, slimmer and…

The low-tech ambitions of Apple’s design guru, Sir Jony Ive

Friday, June 9, 2017 2:57 pmFriday, June 9, 201716 Comments

Last week I got the chance to interview Jonathan ‘Jony’ Ive, Apple’s chief design officer…

How Steve Jobs’ motorcycle inspired Apple’s beautiful designs

Wednesday, May 24, 2017 11:26 am25 Comments

Apple’s recent move into its new multi-billion-dollar, spaceship-like headquarters brought back memories…

Veteran Apple industrial designer Christopher Stringer leaving the company

Monday, April 3, 2017 4:50 pm26 Comments

Long time Apple industrial designer Christopher Stringer is leaving the company…

Hey Apple, it’s time to give up thinness for bigger, longer-lasting batteries

Friday, January 6, 2017 10:15 amFriday, January 6, 201754 Comments

Apple has a problem with batteries. In fact, the problem is so serious that…

Apple’s desktop Macs need some innovation in 2017 – and, no, Apple, we don’t mean thinner

Friday, December 23, 2016 11:01 amFriday, December 23, 201639 Comments

As we approach the Mac’s third-of-a-century mark, the world looks a lot different from the way it did…

Apple patents Apple Watch-style digital crown for iPhone and iPad

Thursday, July 28, 2016 5:35 pmThursday, July 28, 201617 Comments

Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple…

This is what the Apple iPhone 7 Plus will look like – report

Wednesday, May 18, 2016 1:03 pmWednesday, May 18, 201625 Comments

We’ve bagged the CAD files being used to make prototypes of Apple’s upcoming smartphone sensation…

GoPro hires longtime Apple designer Danny Coster to head up a new hardware design group

Wednesday, April 13, 2016 3:25 pmWednesday, April 13, 20169 Comments

While Apple prides itself in maintaining a tight group of 19 industrial design team members under Jony Ive…

iPhone SE vs. iPhone 6S review: Customer win, Apple fail

Monday, April 11, 2016 9:26 amMonday, April 11, 201630 Comments

With the iPhone SE Apple has finally built the device its customers demanded rather than what the company itself wanted…

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