I get this all the time. Whenever we talk about Design Thinking's user-centered approach to finding opportunities and understanding your customer better, someone always reminds me that one of the worlds most successful company (in my humble opinion), Apple, does not do market or user research. Similarly,
"The key for having a great killer product is to have incredible hardware, incredible software, and incredible services. And combine them in such away that you can tell what's what anymore. It becomes an elegant consumer experience. The real magic occurs in
This makes an interesting case study on designing an effective environment for innovation. More details after the jump.
Since the recent keynote by Tim Cook (October 2012), there has been a media furor on how it is going to be the end of Apple, or that Apple after Jobs
After all the moaning and groaning, who really knows why? Except probably Apple. Perhaps history can tell us why by taking a look at what Steve Jobs wrote two months after the iPhone debuted in 2007.
Remember how I did not buy that the role of product curator moves about at Apple? Well it's pretty clear. In a recent Press Release from Apple on increasing collaboration between hardware, software and services, we can see:
Jony Ive
That's the billion dollar question.
But without Jobs, can Apple still innovate? George Colony of Forrester Research suggested in April that Apple will, like Sony after the death of its leader, Akio Morita, in 1999, decline: "When Steve Jobs departed, he took three things with him:
I was not going to blog about the big Apple vs. Samsung IP battle, as in my view IP and patent battles are only for organizations with deep pockets and that the money used to pay
If you have not read the Steve Jobs Biography by Walter Isaacson, the next best thing would probably be this video by Adam Lashinsky, Senior Editor-at-large at Fortune.
You would probably have caught wind of Sir Jony Ive's rare interview with the London Evening Standard by now. I was not planning to blog about this as I figured that this would just become
James Higgs writes an interesting article about the inconsistencies of Apple's aesthetic. In one corner you have Apple's sublime and minimal industrial design where every corner or radii has been considered.
These devices have become increasingly simple and pared down, even as the power contained
John Gruber, from Daring Fireball, tells it like it is. For example, his thought on people wishing for larger 4-inch iPhone screens:
Apple decided on the optimal size for an iPhone display back in 2006. If they thought 4-inches was better, overall, as the
This morning I work up to the sad news of the passing of Steve Jobs. Though I expected it, I had hoped it would never come. As the world
Harry Marks writes a very insightful piece on what Apple has done or will do for the computing industry in a Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud environment.
To some, it means Apple has locking you in to its “walled garden”. To others, the company is giving
In the last few months most of you would have read the endless press about Apple’s multiple lawsuits filed against their competitors claiming that they are stealing their intellectual property. Not only that, countless of
I'm not sure why. And I don't even own an iPad! Perhaps it is the first time that an accessory did not just extend the usability of a product, but instead, changed its archetype.
My good friend Marcus, design entrepreneur and founder of Sumajin, was kind enough to let me play around with his iPad 2 over lunch today.
Interestingly enough the first thing I did was to flip it
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This has to be my favorite moment of Steve Jobs' recent iPad 2 keynote at Apple's special event on the 2nd of March 2011. I
I'm sure all of you have noticed the huge flood of tablet computers in this year’s 2011 CES event in Las Vegas. Not only was it part of my dinner conversation some nights
My decision to buy a new 13" MacBook Air (2010) was quite an arduous one. I went through rounds of intensive research before I decided to take the plunge.