Inspirational stories of designers?

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Jane: the first designer, the first designer

If Kyle Ahtisaari was born at the wrong time, the fate of Jane Zhi Lin, former vice president of design at HTC, will be even more sighing. This is the man who sent HTC One. In 200 1 year, Jane was personally invited to enter juji store, when he was the first industrial designer of the company. However, HTC is not a design-oriented company. HTC's gene is cooperation. As long as the operators need it, Acer will change its plans, which is in stark contrast to narcissistic Apple.

Jian Zhilin rose step by step in HTC, but he didn't get enough attention from the outside world. HTC's first brilliant "diamond" was designed by the design team from San Francisco, and the "butterfly" to get rid of the ugliness behind it was designed by the Japanese team. It was not until the appearance of HTC One that the chief designer was proud and known by the outside world. HTC One is considered as a masterpiece, and Jane has repeatedly stated in public that HTC One is the best Android phone. Although this view is boastful, it is not exaggerated in the eyes of many people in the industry.

In an interview, Jane said, "I think one day it will be appreciated by the outside world." If Germany is not alone, it must have neighbors. " This sentence is used to describe him and HTC. He even revealed that due to the uncompromising design of HTC One, the initial product yield was only 40%. However, when Jane was full of ambition, he took the initiative to collect the design fee and downloaded the HTC Sense 6 materials, which was noticed by HTC. On the day he left his job to start a business, Wang Xuehong personally arranged and arrested his "first designer".

This is the story of these four talented designers, whether it is Duarte, Ahtisaari and Jonathan who pursue perfection, or the real sword, their differences in design talent are not obvious. What really determines their success are the four companies behind them, Apple, Nokia, Google and HTC. Peter Skillman, another famous designer who has worked with Duarte and Ahtisaari, once said, "Design can only account for 5% of a top product, while marketing, sharing and purchasing constitute the remaining 95%.

So we saw Duarte's works, WebOS stillbirth, Nexus and Jelly Bean. The equally outstanding iPhone4 and N9, one became an epoch-making work, and the other was stillborn. HTC One has a better reputation than Galaxy S4, but its shipments are less than one-third. So when the iPhone just went on the market in China and Apple supplied 9 million units to operators in three days, you should know how weak the criticism of Apple's "no innovation" is and how shallow the criticism of "Cook is not as good as Jobs" is. As a fruit fan, when you praise Jonathan as a great designer, don't forget that there are many outstanding designers like him in this era, with different styles and different fates.

: Matthias Duarte, Hua

Duarte, the designer of Android, and the two people mentioned above come from different planets. This Chilean likes to wear gaudy shirts. Shi Ying once ridiculed that "only Duarte's floral shirt looks better than Nexus". Duarte publicly admits that the interface of Android is "vulgar", but this does not affect his confidence in his work. He took the Nexus7 and showed off to Topo, editor-in-chief of the Verge, "Look at this metal frame and leather back". "Are they all plastic? I thought it was really metal? " Topo replied, "It's plastic, but it's very comfortable." Duarte said with a smile.

Duarte has confident capital, and the reusable card of WebOS once made him shine. Later, iOS and HTC Sense borrowed this concept. His first work in Google, Android 3.0, was upgraded to a higher level than the previous 2. X series. He never pursues minimalism, and he has no preference for "flattening" or "quasi-materialization". He said that the philosophy of Android UI is to let users know what it is with a simple outline and then fill it with content. Successful examples are Google Now, and less successful examples are Android menu.

Compared with gentle Kyle or Ivy, Duarte is much stronger. He always has reason to question and criticize others rudely. In August, he wrote an article on Google criticizing Yahoo for deviating from the Android style: "Rules are for consistency and convenience, especially if you don't know anything about it." High-spirited Duarte has completely forgotten the pain in his palm. Verizon betrayed his faith, gave up his painstaking Pre and chose Motorola Droid to compete with iPhone 3GS.

Kyle Ahtisaari, son of the President

Microsoft has just acquired Nokia's mobile phone business. Among all VP-level executives, only Marco Ahtisaari, the head of the design department, chose to leave. Ahtisaari is a prominent surname. Kyle's father, Marti Ahtisaari, served as President of Finland from 1994 to 2000, and won the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Kosovo crisis.

Marco and Ivy Jonathan have a lot in common. Both of them shaved their heads and liked solid T-shirts. From the experience, both of them are from northern Europe. When they were young, they went to America and tried music. The difference is that Ivey went directly to Silicon Valley, while Kyle took three major courses at Columbia University, and even stayed in the school as a lecturer for some time. Kyle's achievement in music is much higher than Ivy's. The former has released many albums and won Grammy awards, while the latter just hangs out in churches and bars.

It took only a year for Ivy to join Apple, and three years later he waited for Jobs to return. Kyle's experience is quite bumpy. He first joined Nokia in 2002 and left in 2006. In 2009, Nokia acquired his company and appointed him as vice president of product design, responsible for all software and hardware design. His N9 and Meego are regarded as Nokia's life-saving straws. A year and a half later, Nokia N9 made a stunning appearance. For the first time, people saw that Nokia can be so elegant and simple. The brand-new Meego system matches the sleek body of the N9, and there are no physical buttons on the front. Unlocking, returning to the home page, task switching and notification center are all done through screen operation. N9' s gesture operation, color application and many years later, iOS7 produced many * * * sounds.

However, at this time, Nokia CEO Elop has made up his mind to switch to Microsoft, and Meego has been confirmed to stop software support and hardware update before the release of N9. What Ma may do after that is to transplant WP system to N9, and the software has nothing to do with him. The concepts of notification center, sliding operation and non-physical buttons on Meego have been completely abandoned. After that, Marco Ahtisaari can only emphasize Lumia's bright and colorful body over and over again every time he appears, without mentioning the software.