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Creative Selection

Autor Ken Kocienda
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 sep 2018

Analizăm în Creative Selection fundamentul tehnic al unora dintre cele mai influente tehnologii moderne: iPhone, iPad și motorul de randare WebKit. Scrisă de Ken Kocienda, inginer software cu o experiență de 15 ani în cadrul Pan Macmillan, această lucrare nu este doar o cronică istorică, ci un manual practic despre procesul de dezvoltare software la Apple. Remarcăm accentul pus pe „selecția creativă”, un proces iterativ riguros care transformă ideile abstracte în produse finite prin demonstrații succesive și feedback imediat. Abordarea este una eminamente practică, axată pe rezolvarea problemelor tehnice complexe, de la optimizarea interfețelor tactile până la stabilitatea codului sub termene limită stricte. Apreciem modul în care autorul distilează filosofia de lucru a companiei în principii acționabile, explicând cum grupuri mici de programatori au reușit să livreze software utilizat de miliarde de oameni. Ca și Ken Segall în Insanely Simple, autorul distilează experiență reală în principii acționabile, însă acolo unde Segall se concentrează pe simplitatea ca strategie de marketing și branding, Ken Kocienda ne oferă perspectiva din interiorul codului, explicând logica inginerească din spatele simplității interfețelor Apple. Structura narativă urmărește evoluția proiectelor de la faza de concept la lansare, oferind detalii despre modul în care echipele colaborează pentru a elimina erorile de sistem (bugs) și pentru a rafina experiența utilizatorului. Este o resursă valoroasă pentru cei interesați de designul de interfață și de ingineria sistemelor de operare, oferind un context tehnic pe care titluri precum Inside Apple de Adam Lashinsky îl abordează mai degrabă din perspectivă organizațională.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781529004717
ISBN-10: 1529004713
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 151 x 233 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: MacMillan Publishers Int Ltd - MDL

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Despre autor

Ken Kocienda a fost o figură centrală în echipa de inginerie software a Apple timp de peste 15 ani, între 2001 și 2017. Rolul său a fost critic în dezvoltarea proiectelor care au definit industria modernă: a creat browserul Safari pe baza motorului WebKit și a proiectat prima tastatură virtuală pentru iPhone, rezolvând una dintre cele mai mari provocări de uzabilitate ale epocii. Experiența sa directă în „epoca de aur” a lui Steve Jobs îi conferă autoritatea unică de a explica intersecția dintre tehnologie și artele liberale.


Descriere

From 2001 to 2017 Ken Kocienda was a software engineer and designer at Apple. In Creative Selection he gives his personal account of what it was like to work at Apple during the last few years of the Steve Jobs era--from demo-ing products for Steve Jobs, to helping create software for products like the iPhone, the iPad, and WebKit, the most popular software in the world for browsing the web. Throughout, Kocienda shares the principles he and his colleagues used at Apple to do their best, most innovative work and to make great products, including the demo-driven iterative creative selection method used for turning ideas into finished work. The book is an inside look at how a group of software engineers and designers made world-changing products the Apple way.Creative Selection is about making great products and Ken's experiences trying to make them. During his fifteen years at Apple, the effort to make great products was all he thought about and cared about. Software was his piece in the product puzzle. He developed user interface concepts and prototypes which made the most of new hardware features, he wrote heaps of computer code to make it all go, and he worked with other programmers and designers to create bug-free software which shipped on schedule, as they all tried to make products which would surprise and delight the people who were eagerly waiting the unveiling of the next great thing. Apple was the perfect company for Ken, and his timing was great. He got in on the ground floor of some cool projects, including: the iPhone, the iPad, the Safari web browser, and more. The book is a collection of Ken's stories and thoughts about how they made these products--the light bulbs clicking on over people's heads, the long struggles to solve seemingly insoluble problems, the pleas for help, the brilliant people, the moments of confusion, the demo reviews, the methodical work, the never-ending demands to do better, and finally, the success of making products which people everywhere use every day to express themselves through words and pictures, communicate with their loved ones, and interact with the world.

Notă biografică

Ken Kocienda was a software engineer and designer at Apple for over fifteen years. After graduating from Yale, he fixed motorcycles, worked in the editorial library of a newspaper, taught English in Japan and made fine art photographs. Eventually, he discovered the internet, taught himself computer programming and made his way through a succession of dot-com-era startups, before landing at Apple in 2001, where he worked on the software teams that created the Safari web browser, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Ken lives in San Jose, California with his wife.

Descriere scurtă

An insider's account of Apple's creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs.

'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

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 fifteen 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 readers how a small group of people developed an evolutionary design model, and how they used this methodology to make groundbreaking and intuitive software which countless millions use every day.