July 21, 2004

Birth of iPod

Wired has a fascinating article on the birth of iPod. Steve Jobs was intimately involved in the design process and the whole project was almost nixed because of poor battery life. I find it amazing that the simple intuitive user interface was designed in only 3 months. Good UI is very, very difficult. Ask Microsoft and every consumer electronics manufacturer on the planet. "The interesting thing about the iPod, is that since it started, it had 100 percent of Steve Jobs' time," said Knauss. "Not many projects get that. He was heavily involved in every single aspect of the project." Read