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.
##虽然有点像 Jobs 的拜物教,但是作为纯工程出身的作者一个人要把 设计/算法/工程 三块集合在一起,还是很不容易的。开发了 Safari,iPhone keyboard 和 iPad keyboard,作者也算是把 Apple 的 R&D into application 实践到了极致
评分##“On the tenth of January 2007, the day after the big product introduction, I edited the autocorrection dictionary to add a new word: iPhone.”
评分##关于Keyboard和Safari设计过程的描述挺不错,两种很不同的线路。其他部分更多像是布道和大道理吧,听多了可能会吃噎着;英文原版,中间关于橄榄球的一段理解起来有些难
评分除了每章末强行总结、升华之外没什么太多缺点(有一章居然引申到了爱迪生和电灯泡,也是无力吐槽了╮(╯▽╰)╭),亮点是苹果内部的软件工程运作方式,和开发人员的工作思路和思考模式。最有感触的一个片段当属 Safari 开发前期的demo:作者希望将现有的浏览器先移植到Mac系统上进行demo,苦熬6周在百万行代码里看瞎了眼也鲜有进展,结果新来的大拿同事2天之内拿出working demo (这个对比的惨烈程度,我到读完整本书都还心有戚戚.. 总的来说是本可以推荐给软件开发从业者、对开发感兴趣或者对苹果工程师(在“黄金年代”)工作模式感兴趣的人的书。作者总结的苹果的成功之道,一听了之也就是了。毕竟我能想到比 Seagull Manager 更糟的领导者,大概就是 Jobs wannabe 了
评分除了每章末强行总结、升华之外没什么太多缺点(有一章居然引申到了爱迪生和电灯泡,也是无力吐槽了╮(╯▽╰)╭),亮点是苹果内部的软件工程运作方式,和开发人员的工作思路和思考模式。最有感触的一个片段当属 Safari 开发前期的demo:作者希望将现有的浏览器先移植到Mac系统上进行demo,苦熬6周在百万行代码里看瞎了眼也鲜有进展,结果新来的大拿同事2天之内拿出working demo (这个对比的惨烈程度,我到读完整本书都还心有戚戚.. 总的来说是本可以推荐给软件开发从业者、对开发感兴趣或者对苹果工程师(在“黄金年代”)工作模式感兴趣的人的书。作者总结的苹果的成功之道,一听了之也就是了。毕竟我能想到比 Seagull Manager 更糟的领导者,大概就是 Jobs wannabe 了
评分##书中若干苹果产品开发案例挺有意思的,就是内容太啰嗦了,就这么一点事,不断拔高升华,如果能砍掉三分之一的篇幅就好了。
评分##讲 iPhone 输入的部分可以一读。
评分##这本书的作者是初代iPhone、iPad虚拟键盘程序的设计、开发人员,更早之前还为Mac开发了Safari。书中围绕他所接触的项目提出概念,进行演示,通过演示收到反馈,从反馈中精进产品,再完成演示。这一套方法论印证了我之前半年所经历,看到这些描述感觉很亲切。
评分##太啰嗦了,一件事翻来覆去变着花样说……看完第二个案例实在读不下去弃了
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