In Memory of Steve Jobs, A Brief History, and Invaluable Life Lessons
Yesterday, October 5th, Steve Jobs, one of the world's most influential force in design, technology and innovation. He is sure to become immortalized and forever remembered as such. He pioneered the world's first personal computer, feature length 3-d animated film, and combining emotion with computer interaction. He was a believer that design and engineering needed to be blended together from the start, not a two step process. A brief of history highlights Imitation is the best form of flattery - During a 1979 visit to the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Jobs again spotted mass potential in a niche invention: a computer that allowed people to access files and control programs with the click of a mouse, not typed commands. He returned to Apple and ordered the team to copy what he had seen. User Centered Design - It foreshadowed a propensity to take other people's concepts, improve on them and spin them into wildly successful products...