Jonathan Ive
Jonathan Ive
Sir Jonathan Paul "Jony" Ive, KBE is a British industrial designer who is currently the Chief Design Officerof Apple Inc. He oversees the Apple Industrial Design Group and also provides leadership and direction for Human Interface software teams across the company. Ive is the designer of many of Apple's products, including the MacBook Pro, iMac, MacBook Air, Mac mini, iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini, Apple Watch, and iOS...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDesigner
important care ability
The most important thing is that you actually care, that you do something to the very best of your ability
thinking views important
I think it’s a wonderful view that care was important – but I think you can make a one-off and not care and you can make a million of something and care. Whether you really care or not is not driven by how many of the products you’re going to make.
team people important
And I said couldn't we be more moderate? And he said why? And I said because I care about the team. And he said, 'No Jony, you're just really vain. You just want people to like you. I'm surprised at you, because I thought you really held the work up as the most important and not how you are perceived by people.' People misunderstand Steve because he was so focused.
design important
What we don't include is as important as what we do include.
best buy figured goal good money operation people products successful trust
Our goal is to desperately make the best products we can. We're not naive. We trust that if we're successful and we make good products, that people will like them. And we trust that if people like them, they'll buy them. And we figured out the operation and we're effective. We know what we're doing, so we'll make money, but it's a consequence.
best few means
When you do everything to make the very best product, it also means you're very focused on just a few products.
assume bad blame experience food
Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience with food, we blame the food?!
philosophical thinking order
I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.
Different' and 'new' is relatively easy. Doing something that's genuinely better is very hard.
corporate
We won't be different for different's sake. Different is easy... make it pink and fluffy! Better is harder. Making something different often has a marketing and corporate agenda.
aware design designer designers irritates products
It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.
bad course design designers designing four great people sad software spent
It is sad that so many designers don't know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It is sad that four years can be spent on a 3D design course without making anything! People who are great at designing and making have a great advantage.
copied design eight inevitable six stolen time work
Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.
incredibly
Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.