Apple’s Apology and the Rejection of Creative Destruction
Looking backwards in time at seven wonders of the world (Part One)
https://skeuomorphic.design/p/apples-apology-and-the-rejection
Whoever needs my authorization to put me on the payroll, is hereby authorized.
The idea that you can’t learn from how wonders of the world were actually built is one of the biggest viruses plaguing every design team.
One of the strange phenomenons of being responsible for work definitions as a work engineer at Apple is you'll never be able to figure out how to work with people who don't want to work with you.
If you don't know how to describe what you do, you don't know what you do.
Apple is the only company in the world where your right to be seen as a designer doesn’t exclude you from your right to be seen as an inventor.
https://skeuomorphic.design/p/the-right-to-be-seen-as-a-designer
One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to explain to a civilian is that being an Apple designer comes with greater security responsibilities and security clearances than most lieutenant generals have.
What people don’t get and don’t want to have to think about is that the technical security of their data is a real actual matter of life and death.
Yesterday, on Global Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD, roses/foundation launched a 'Designers on Strike' campaign to raise awareness about the importance of designers around the world.
Designers don't get a 'designer appreciation week' like other professions do and we're the only profession in the world that doesn't get to go on strike.
Read the full letter here:
Apple designers protect the security importance of a designers role in identifying looming threats to human existence and global security.
Side projects:
What’s better, to tip toe around whether you’re going to offend someone by describing exceptional processes in exceptional ways, or describing exceptional processes as relative and equal to everything else so people’s feelings, egos and sense of equality doesn’t go challenged?
It’s hilarious to me how threads was built on the back of being anti-twitter but nobody has any problems with trusting their data to Meta.
When a design dignitary gets trapped into local infrastructure priorities, there has to be an easier way for that person to request design delegation for local priorities.
Design responsibilities are safety responsibilities.
Safety responsibilities are building responsibilities.
Building responsibilities are security responsibilities.
Security responsibilities are everyone’s responsibility.
(This is how we define engineering and building responsibilities at Apple.)
The record industry wasn’t about to trust us with their entire music catalogs if we didn’t understand security better than them.
Beyond the SEC: Apple’s Journey with the STC
The Special Securities Exception That Sets Apple Engineering Apart from Its Competitors
https://skeuomorphic.design/p/beyond-the-sec-apples-journey-with
The better you get at design, the better you are at security.
The better you get at security, the more you’re trusted to design better things.
There are people who would have you locked up for believing that your ability to build something new depends on your ability to have conversations that haven’t been had.
The definition of a 'genius conversation' at Apple is a conversation (between two people) that has never been had for the purpose of designing something that has never been built.
Your heritage with the company comes from protecting the sacred understandings that came from these agreements, as if your life, their life, and the public's safety depends upon it.
The hardest thing you’re ever going to do in life is defend your right to have genius conversations with people who are much smarter than you.
If you aren’t willing to have conversationss that have never been had, you’ll never build anything that has never been built.
The problem with taking the time to educate the public about how important process knowledge or security understandings are:
It gives ammunition to those who live in their comfort zone for writing you off as out of your mind.