This is technically the only job I'm eligible for so I hope I get it.
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/796108900
I don’t exaggerate when I say that @ourdevicesecurities protect our most valued intelligence agencies.
If your device can’t be trusted by the Pentagon, your definition of ‘privacy’ might be the problem.
The reason @myperspectives around 9/11 are so @meaningful is because I was responsible for Pentagon-level device privacy at the time of the attacks.
Ayn Rand said:
“If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.”
The right way to think about an experience designer is as “the EXACT opposite of a bureaucrat”.
While bureaucrats are busy warding off areas you can’t access with red tape, experience designers are busy removing the red tape and replacing it with better experiences.
I was asked today if I ever get on the phone to go after desirable clients.
There was a time in my life (pre-Apple) when going after my dreams did involve getting on the phone.
Now, after having proven to myself that I could please the world’s most difficult client, my work has more to do with helping startups get their act together and pointing designers in the right direction. The startups and designers who are teachable usually have no trouble finding me but the right timing is important.
Steve Jobs was the hardest client in the world to please, not because he didn’t know what he was talking about most of the time, but because he was unassuming about which solutions made too many assumptions about the way something would be used.
Most firms have a hello@ email address people use for onboarding new clients.
We have a goodbye@ email address @alanasayslove emails from when we need to fire a client.
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Engineers and designers won’t be treated like a tremendous burden in order to get paid when we’re a tremendous help.
When we're expected to, that's when we fall off the map and you never hear from us again.
If @commercial interests continue to have their way with the shaping of how information is appropriated on the Internet, there will no longer be such thing as a “corner of the Internet” that is protected from @bigmedia, @bigdata and @bigpharma.
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Having designed Apple’s Internet observatory, my lifetime oaths involve protecting corners of the Internet from ideological ‘experts’ on the far left or right trying to turn every conversation into a weaponized and ‘informed’ conversation about how their group exclusively defines ‘misinformation’.
I was responsible for defining the 2step standards specification for how every appliance patent after 2003 would be filed and standardized.
If you’re interested to know why no function or task you want to perform should ever be more than 2steps away, you can ask me for help getting your app or interface to be 2step compliant with the same level of clarity and understandability that goes into building every Apple product (both hardware and software experiences).
If you make copyrighting code technically impossible, engineering budgets will be allocated to lawyers instead of engineering salaries and design and engineering jobs will be reduced to minimum wage.
Human effort minus lies of omission = design case studies
Steve Jobs showing Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf how to use a Macintosh computer that Sean Lennon received for his 9th birthday.
It was October 9, 1984, and Steve Jobs was going to a nine-year-old's birthday party. He'd been invited just a few hours earlier by journalist David Scheff, who was wrapping up a profile of the Apple Computer wunderkind for Playboy. Jobs was far from the highest-profile guest, however. Walter Cronkite, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Louise Nevelson, John Cage, and singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson were also in attendance. And Yoko Ono, of course-it was her son's birthday, after all.
Despite the last-minute invitation, Jobs had managed to bring along a gift for the young Sean Lennon. A few hours into the party-once cake had been served and the adults began to talk amongst themselves-Jobs asked Lennon if he was ready to open his present.
It was, naturally, a Macintosh computer. Released in January of that year, the machine was the newest of Apple's personal computing products on the market. Jobs set up the Macintosh on the floor of Lennon's bedroom, demonstrating how to use the mouse by opening up MacPaint. The boy was enthralled by the program, initially sketching a few simple shapes with the paintbrush tool and then moving on to a sort of camel-lion hybrid.
A few of the adult guests wandered in, including Warhol and Haring. Warhol took one look at the computer program and turned to Haring in wonderment. "What is this? Look at this, Keith. This is incredible!" A few minutes later, Warhol asked if he could take a turn in front of the monitor. Jobs explained how the mouse worked, but the artist instead lifted it off the floor and swished it through the air. Finally, Jobs put his hand over Warhol's and steered it along until he'd gotten the hang of it.
After a few minutes in concentrated silence, Warhol glanced up. "Look! Keith! I drew a circle!"
That night, Warhol recorded the episode in his diary. He'd told Jobs that a man had been calling him repeatedly, trying to give him a Macintosh, but Warhol had never followed up. Jobs replied, "Yeah, that was me. I'm Steve Jobs."
Source: Apple Alumni - The First Generation
You don’t technically work for Apple unless you design for this one rule:
We’re @first, we’re @best, we’re @firstandbest, and when we aren’t @first, we’ll still be @best.
Yes, we have @firstandbest technical requirements for designing for the best design team on the planet.
If @realFCCsecurity were still around to protect @therealACTUALexactSteveJobsfamily from @fakenarrativeunits, there is no way in the world that Steve Jobs would have ever approved of shipping @devices with protruding lenses.
The lenses would be flush with the device and the pace that the camera was authorized to improve would have remained constrained to what the device could house without obstructing the integrity or form factor of the unit.
The one time of the year @thecompamy discusses publicly what we’re working on is WWDC. To run the company is to know why we don’t discuss what we’re working on publicly every other day of the year.
@gruber’s WWDC talks have become somewhat of an Unofficial State of the Union for @datadesigners like myself.
There’s a real sense of accomplishment that comes with being able to say that you worked on something where God’s spirit didn’t have to be rejected in order for it to come into existence.
Every 💻 comes complete as a dwelling place for the Most High.
“Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest? For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist,“
Apple.com exceeding SAR limits with products for sale in the United States
https://skeuomorphic.design/p/applecom-exceeding-sar-limits-with
We should probably avoid hiring @fakepeople who worship @humanextinction to write hardware code for @ourdevices.
Apple.com exceeding SAR limits with products for sale in the United States
https://skeuomorphic.design/p/applecom-exceeding-sar-limits-with