Software Design lead at Apple (was Re: iPhone Keynote)

This brings up an interesting question to me. Does Ive have a virtual
counterpart?
Who is the lead designer on the software side of things?

-- dave

Paul Schreiber wrote:
> Leslie Chicoine wrote:
>
>
>>> Jobs clearly has a genius for design
>>> without UCD. Who are we to tell him he's doing it wrong?
>>>
>> Just to be a stickler I'd like to mention that Jobs isn't the lead
>> designer
>> at Apple, it's Jonathan Ive:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Ive
>>
>> "Since Steve Jobs <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs>
>> returned to
>> Apple Inc. in 1997 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997>, Ive has
>> headed the
>> industrial design team that produces most of the company's current
>> hardware
>> products"
>>
>
> While Jonathan Ive is the VP of Industrial Design, and does amazing
> work, Steve Jobs is very much in charge when it comes to all final
> decisions. Steve is also very hands-on with software -- font size,
> button placement, colour choice, templates, everything.
>
>
>
> Paul
>
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>
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