Filip Novotny Apple will soon leave one of the key employees of recent years, the head of software design Greg Christie. According to the server, they are the reason for his departure 9to5Mac long-term disagreements with Chief Design Officer Jony Ive. He will now be able to strengthen his role within the company. However, there is also information that Christie's departure was planned for a long time and his long-time employee will leave Apple only at the end of the year.
As vice president of software design (more precisely, human interface), Greg Christie was in charge of the visual side of the entire product line. He oversaw the design of operating systems and applications for Mac, iPhone and iPad, and his role was certainly not negligible. This is also confirmed by well-known blogger John Gruber: "His influence on the character of OS X and iOS (at least before version 7) was really fundamental." writes on your website Daring Fireball.
Its importance was pointed out by Apple itself, which normally rarely speaks to its employees. "Greg is leaving after almost 20 years. During that time, he has been instrumental in the development of a number of products and assembled a first-class team of software designers who have worked closely with Jony for many years," the company said in a statement to Financial Times. to Matthew Panzarin of TechCrunch Apple's position has yet to succeed extend. "Greg planned to retire later this year after 20 years at Apple," the spokeswoman added.
It is this information about the planned event that casts a somewhat different light on the departure of Christie, who has worked at Apple since 1996. According to 9to5Mac's unnamed sources, strained relations between him and Apple's design chief Jony Ive are to blame, but TechCrunch claims that Christie's departure has been known within the company for weeks and has been planned for much longer.
It is speculated that the reasons behind Christie's departure may have been disagreements over the visual design direction of the new iOS 7 operating system, where Ive was supposed to ignore the corporate hierarchy and instruct Christie's work team himself. However, this potential problem will now disappear because after the departure of his boss, Christie's team will answer directly to Jony Ive, and not to Craig Federighi, as it has been until now.
The practical implications for the situation inside Apple are clear: Jony Ive will strengthen his position and design will be completely under his control. This may be positive for further development, as Christie, who had worked for a long time under Scott Forstall, was supposed to be an advocate of plastic and skeuomorphic design, which Ive, on the other hand, tried to eradicate when he took on the new role of head of design.
But whether Ive and Christie professed different directions of design or not, the primary reason for the latter's departure is not supposed to be their disagreements. Although there were certain differences of opinion between Ive and Christie, which is natural, there was never an open conflict, and Christie's departure is thus the result of a long-term plan. After eighteen years, Christie should lose direct responsibility and remain at Apple and work on "special projects" before leaving for good, just as Bob Mansfield did.
However, the announcement of Christie's departure comes paradoxically after his testimony before the court in the Apple vs. Samsung where testified about the importance of the "slide-to-unlock" patent, and also after Apple released him for talks regarding the development of the first iPhone. Although Christie's departure will not take place with immediate effect, it will no longer have such an influence on the development of the new version of the OS X operating system, which according to the latest information is to undergo a significant design change in the summer, which will be inspired by Ive's flat iOS 7. At least a partial transfer of the look of iOS 7 on Mac is not out of the question, and for example, the application just introduced could hint at a new form Mailbox. And as John Gruber says: say goodbye Lucida Grande.
a guy who knew how a design should look is fired by a guy who....torn the whole user environment!!! keep going apple and in a few years it will buy nokia for a dollar
apple with desktop design on mac? thank you goodbye
I'm also against desktop designs, where did they take the idea that Ive?
no Ive it wasn't, it's panic from the competition and admiration for WinMobile, which I don't understand why they feel the need to copy the competition.
If they're done with iOS, now they're jumping on OSX, not only is it ugly in design, but there are also errors in user friendliness and ergonomics in general, for example the new Call screen, both incoming and outgoing, on the lock screen, etc... or music app, where u back/next track, the elements are so close to each other that you accidentally press shuffle... etc small details, but these details were made by Apple Apple
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I also have the feeling that it's not what it used to be anymore, it's simply being handled by completely different people with different interests and ideas.
Patent war, departure of longtime employees, files in OS X and iOS7, departures of employees again, iPad 2 is still recently on the market, then it is not on the market, iPhone 5c, their ad agency compares Apple to 1997, etc.
The company is preoccupied with internal strife and I doubt there is any energy left for innovation. In addition, I also find that after a week of having my iPhone5 in service with a replacement Lumia from a friend, a few important Apps are missing, but overall a very good impression and I will be happy if the Apple service prolongs the repair as long as possible :)
"This can be positive given further developments"
Are you serious? :D
So as quickly as I recently switched to Apple because of the UI, I'll probably drop out again quickly.
Exactly.
"who have worked closely with Jony for many years"
I do not think. Under the leadership of Jobs, HW and SW designers were separated, Ive has a completely different view of SW design than Jobs/Forstall, therefore I do not know how Ive cooperated for many years when Jobs did not allow him to design SW at all
he was quietly waiting for what jobs would allow him and now he can't deal with it when he has a free hand...
so what I read was that HW should sit with SW. I don't know how much they cooperated with Johny, but considering that his perspective is quite different, probably not much :) The change after X years is controversial, but it's a good thing, but research beforehand probably wouldn't hurt.
Gossip, gossip…. You are citing one source that is wrong. I wonder if you will get a robot and fix it too
Daringfireball.net
Arstechnica.com
Can you please let me know what we should fix? One thing is to quote John Gruber. The second thing is that he only links to other sources. The third thing is that we, on the other hand, didn't immediately go out with the news when 9to5Mac released it, but we waited for more information. In the end, they actually came, and we also added them to the article and completely changed its original wording.
Gruber published another link where he mentions his sources who confirmed that it was a normal departure and not Forstall-gate as 9to5 tried to portray. The article seems to me to be a negative speculation, where no one normally expects people at Apple to work like in North Korea and die behind the keyboard there, but when someone leaves, it's like the end of the world.
We mentioned both the original speculations from 9to5Mac, as well as those that appeared subsequently from Panzarin and Gruber. We give both views on the matter, with the fact that the departure is probably not due to disputes between Christie and Ive.
yes, but even then, logically, the sequence of sources is a bit messed up and it makes it look like it's a cause for panic
Peace
What's not to like about flat design. I personally like it more than what it was. It will be great on Mac too, it's just a matter of getting used to it and I like change.
All. Beautifully elaborated icons gave it a certain style, but I can't find a way to like it.
the design of the desktop is not bad, but the fact that the icons are returning to the 8-bit era is disgusting... Compared to 6, iOS 7 is perfect in terms of control elements, I don't understand why the buttons suddenly have to change the text on the screen and the graphics are so soft and small that it's hard to see (lock screen for the first time)
if the intuitiveness of the UI were improved, I wouldn't say a word and I would prefer those icons, but the opposite is true and iOS7 is a visual chaos (even if it still doesn't come close to MS and their Windows mobile)
We mentioned both the original speculations from 9to5Mac, as well as those that appeared subsequently from Panzarin and Gruber. We give both views on the matter, with the fact that the departure is probably not due to disputes between Christie and Ive.
so I can sign it even if it's not clear. The flat design is uncluttered, but too austere unfriendly for Apple. Icons are terrible on iOS. Pidi text is unnecessarily small for some menus even in current OSX and the most used window buttons. Overall, e.g. Win is far more readable. But again, the usability of gray not only suited the aluminum used, but it is also more pleasing to the eye. Sometimes the truth seems too old fashioned. If the change is not so drastic and they do it with a bit of common sense, as I expected with iOS7, then there will be no problem. They could have implemented a lot of things from the controllability of iOS a long time ago. For example, I don't understand why the Zoom gesture is not functional in mail. Why can't gestures be used in windows? They had such a head start with the trackpad and gestures and then wait for the competition to catch up? Although it would be better to come up with something more comfortable. The hand is stiff from prolonged use and it is worse than from the ergo mouse. This problem does not exist on the Tablet, it is controlled a little differently.
because he is too hungry for work. everything is white, you don't know where you are. You keep looking for where you wanted to go. desktop design ok, but together with pamrdom 7.X it is a dream calling to heaven. I stopped using the calendar when 7 arrived, as soon as they changed it to the OS, I stopped using it there as well.
Who is the article about? It looked like it was about Greg Christie, but the photo is of Ive.
Christie doesn't really like cameras.
If I look at it from a really sober point of view, I see that after the takeover of the government at Apple, too many people in important positions are resigning and leaving, it seems very strange to me. Are they working on "Special Projects" before leaving for good? Those special projects are nothing more than the fact that the outgoing boss has to hand over the work, contacts, get to know and train his successor in detail, he has to get into the express car with his successor and drive part of the way with him so that he doesn't get lost. Driving even a small part of Apple is not a toy car, but a real bus. As for the work of "Master" Ive, I am beginning to doubt that he does not need a check on himself and someone who will not judge his proposals with a sober eye and make corrections. That Controller was made by Forstal and now in iOS7 we see what Ive and his team produced without limitations and we still have to realize that the first iOS7 was a bigger horror than the 7.1.
APPLE can hire the best people in the business and give them tasks – they do that too…. But she misses the creator - dad - Jobs!!! Ive was just an excellent designer, whom dad let grow up beyond healthy, and today we literally have a cult of personality with the name Sir. Eve. It's very bad - APPL happened that this boy got in over their head and the officials who stay there don't know how to deal with it... In Czech, I would say it like this: "You know what Johny? Go to hell…” :-).
If you don't like the design and are so disgusted with it that you have to cry in the discussions, then there is nothing easier than to go to the competition.
an argument worthy of a fool
Well, no, here everyone is already packing up and leaving for the competition. :D I can't stop wondering. Do you think Windows Phone is better?
Either we're using a completely different phone or I'm seriously weird, but for me - I'm not going anywhere, I like the design and I'm not going to argue about bullshit. I think that even a below-average intelligent person can easily understand iOS 7. If it is different for you, there is no help. :)
Jobs was like an uncontrolled missile, which is why he was so appreciated with hindsight. At times when he was making decisions, he could seem crazy to a lot of people. Ive is similar, everyone still complains in the discussions that Apple is missing Jobs and when better times dawn, then everyone gets wind of this, I don't understand. I'm looking forward to what Ive comes up with.