Today is Friday....
I just read a great story about Jony Ives in the Financial Times. Apples Sr.VP is Knighted and some suggest his looks to that of a major movie or rock star. In all reality he is a simply put, an innovator beyond words.
Look at his long list of designs.... Apples finest: Ipad, Mac, Ipod, Iphone... shall I continue?
Ok, now that we have determined that he is a design royalty, one asks where does he get his influence? Who is it that brings his genius out? Where is the work created? How does he build a design from beginning to end?
Recently a great article was written about him in the London Evening Standard giving a real detailed look at the man and what makes him produce such world changing work. Looking at the innovative process at Apple is something that is very interesting. The design of products, software and culture is something that is thought out with attention to the greatest detail.
These concepts and process for design excellence begs me to ask the question how could a company take these ideas and foundational thinking and transform them into world changing products? Could this be something that a organization could replicate? Could you identify these ideas around design excellence and creativity and duplication of this process? Something that others can build and learn from? Or is it something more... ?
I tend to believe that Ives is something special. He possesses some inter qualities of creativity that beg one to wonder where he is inspired from? Now think about this concept of creation a bit deeper and gain a true understanding of the complexity of new idea creation and design excellence.
And when you are done thinking.... Go do something extraordingly magical!
Jeffrey
