具體描述
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.
用戶評價
##很難得的一綫的詳盡的軟件開發的背後的故事瞭。 查瞭查書裏的各個名字，大部分都在 Scott 離職以後走瞭。寫代碼再猛，也要考慮時代的進程嘿。
評分##keyboard
評分##總不忘酸兩句a/b testing🙄
評分##軟件界的自然選擇
評分##很少見的講述蘋果內部開發産品的書，非常偏技術，對開發者（尤其移動前端）會很有用。 但如果不懂技術，就不用看瞭，大多會看不懂（看瞭下豆瓣書評基本都沒看懂，估計也和中文翻譯有關）
評分##更像是作者本人對在蘋果工作時期的迴憶錄，所選的三個項目隻能盡量管中窺豹，剩下的設計過程估計作者本人也不清楚。讀罷感慨幾大巨頭公司文化果然大相徑庭啊！你到底想要做什麼樣的産品呢
評分##總不忘酸兩句a/b testing🙄
評分##書中若乾蘋果産品開發案例挺有意思的，就是內容太囉嗦瞭，就這麼一點事，不斷拔高升華，如果能砍掉三分之一的篇幅就好瞭。
評分##關於Keyboard和Safari設計過程的描述挺不錯，兩種很不同的綫路。其他部分更多像是布道和大道理吧，聽多瞭可能會吃噎著；英文原版，中間關於橄欖球的一段理解起來有些難
