The Story Behind Susan Kare’s Iconic Design Work for Apple

Post by pmichaud » Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 1:30 PM UTC

djsumdog wrote: post #5

These basic designs pretty much stayed the course all the way through OS 9, and some even in OS X. It's gotta be surreal to think something she designed is on millions of devices. Reminds me of someone I met who wrote video drivers for Intel. It's something small you don't think about, a tiny piece that is essential in bringing the whole thing together. Too often we think about the captains of the ships, the Gates an…

Post by alxlaz » Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 3:23 PM UTC

pvg wrote: post #9

djsumdog wrote: post #5

These basic designs pretty much stayed the course all the way through OS 9, and some even in OS X. It's gotta be surreal to think something she designed is on millions of devices. Reminds me of someone I met who wrote video drivers for Intel. It's something small you don't think about, a tiny piece that is essential in bringing the whole thing together. Too often we think about the captains of the ships, the Gates an…

Gates was quite heavily involved in making Microsoft's early products, long before they had '60 to 150 engineers'. In the case of Jobs, the really enduring mystery to me is that despite some seemingly disqualifying personality flaws, he managed to both surround himself with very talented people and get them to do outstanding work together. Once, you could chalk it up to luck but somehow he did it repeatedly.

Post by tempaccnt123 » Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 3:56 PM UTC

pmichaud wrote: post #41

djsumdog wrote: post #5

These basic designs pretty much stayed the course all the way through OS 9, and some even in OS X. It's gotta be surreal to think something she designed is on millions of devices. Reminds me of someone I met who wrote video drivers for Intel. It's something small you don't think about, a tiny piece that is essential in bringing the whole thing together. Too often we think about the captains of the ships, the Gates an…

> I doubt Elon could design the engine of a rocket. In this case, you're wrong. Elon is actually the lead engineer on at least early SpaceX rockets.

Post by gtycomb » Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 4:51 PM UTC

alxlaz wrote: post #43

pvg wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gates was quite heavily involved in making Microsoft's early products, long before they had '60 to 150 engineers'. In the case of Jobs, the really enduring mystery to me is that despite some seemingly disqualifying personality flaws, he managed to both surround himself with very talented people and get them to do outstanding work together. Once, you could chalk it up to luck but somehow he did it repeatedly.

Joel Spolsky has a good story about Gates and his understanding of engineering. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev... Edit: there's a tl;dr on the particular topic of Gates' engineering skills buried in the story (which I'll quote below), but I encourage everyone to read the whole damn thing because that is how you successfully lead engineers. tl;dr "It was a good point. Bill Gates was amazi…

Post by grkvlt » Thu, Jun 14, 2018, 3:32 AM UTC

unicornporn wrote: post #38

cosmojg wrote: post #7

For the lazy: the symbol (⌘) has apparently been used at Swedish campgrounds and parks for decades. It's used to denote interesting features, both natural and man-made. It was inspired by the way Swedish castles look from above (a central building with a turret at each corner).

> the symbol (⌘) has apparently been used at Swedish campgrounds and parks for decades That's not how I know the sign. The Swedish Transport Agency has a page for this road sign[1]. It says, roughly translated: “The symbol indicates an historic site [or attraction] of national interest. The nature of the historic site is indicated in connection with the symbol.” So, it's probably more commonly used to mark viking age…