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First three top-of-mind thoughts about Apple Intelligence: • I really wish they would have addressed the environmental story. That would help me personally accept these features more. But I know they can’t… because the story isn’t good. • I actually think a lot of it looks quite nice, feels Apple-esque, and the UI they’re doing is really cool • I remain viscerally repulsed by any AI generated art lol (In their Notes demo the sketch looked better!) True absolute star of the keynote: MathNotes
Good product design is *essential* for success. And yet, the discipline almost never has a dedicated role, even in large companies.
By product design, I’m referring to design thinking: distilling pain points & use cases, decomposing them to their essence, and designing features that balance tradeoffs.
It’s usually part of product management, but that also requires other, entirely orthogonal skills. There is not even a proper name for it; "product design" in most companies refers to UI design.
Now, of course, most users use a case - then this becomes a non-issue. But presumably Apple spend all this time designing their phones to look so nice not just for press and marketing photos so it bewilders me they don't realise how hard they are to use, or choose to ignore it.
A phone with polished rails and a non-frosted glass back would be so so much better to handle and it's a real shame it doesn't exist.
Raghav Agrawal
Lea Verou, PhD