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Creative Selection
- Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
- Narrated by: Ken Kocienda
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Summary
An insider's account of Apple's creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs.
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 15 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 listeners how a small group of people developed an evolutionary design model and how they used this methodology to make groundbreaking and intuitive software that countless millions use every day.
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Critic reviews
"Kocienda reveals the real secret of Steve Jobs's leadership and Apple's magic: the ability to push people to think for themselves, and to empower them to turn their best thinking into reality. It is a story about the intersection of technology and humanity." (Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor)
“If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to work in a hotbed of innovation, you’ll enjoy this inside view of life at Apple. Ken Kocienda pioneered the iPhone keyboard, and this book gives a play-by-play of their creative process - from generating ideas to doing a demo for Steve Jobs.” (Adam Grant, New York Times best-selling author of Originals, Give and Take, and Option B [with Sheryl Sandberg])
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- Anonymous User
- 15-01-19
An enlightening insight into the software design process of Apple under Steve Jobs
The book does not try to sell a magic formula for how to create great software, but rather gives a glimpse into some of the behaviors and values which contributed to the success of Apple under Steve Jobs. A solid performance by the author himself and a recommended read for anyone working in the field of software development.
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- Olivier
- 17-09-18
Interesting but a bit preachy
An interesting behind the scenes look at a few pieces of software written by the author at Apple. Was a bit frustrated at the endless recaps of what we had just heard. The author obviously thought his audience could not put 2 and 2 together. Otherwise pleasant voice. Sound a bit odd (difficult to pinpoint but hard to listen to in a car).
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- Anonymous User
- 25-09-18
Detail heavy but great insights
For anyone hoping to get inside Apple its a great read, but be warned there is a great deal of nuts and bolts details as it's a real in-depth review of the processes involved with bringing software to market within Apple. Not for the faint hearted but for anyone who is in the industry it's a great read.
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