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    The Apple Way

    Take Their Breath AwayBY

    GROUP # 3

    Naveed Asif(9536)

    Muhammad Rohail(9535)

    Muhammad Uzair Khan(9519)

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    Take their breath away This chapter is about design.

    Focuses on the processes how a product takes form.

    Some computer makers think that design is not a bigissue.

    They focus on the stuff inside it, its size its weight andthe price point.

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    y The design can be differentiator in the market.

    yApples emerged as the source of some of the mostsophisticated industrial designs in the world.

    y In 2002, iPod won best of best from Design ZentrumNordrhein Westfalen, Essen, Germany And in thesame year, the iBook also won best of best.

    y It helped apple to keep company alive.

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    Product should be good lookingy The product should look like a consumer product

    friendly attractive and heart touching.

    y Go all the way with your aesthete i.e developedappreciation in beauty.

    y If you know what customer wants then you must giveit.

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    From Naked to NormativeyApples first product, the Apple I, was actually sold

    without a case.

    y Steve jobs already had developed strong ideas abouthow this new machine should present itself to theworld

    yAmong his relatively few personal possessions wereseveral boxes made out of an exotic light-colored woodcases for the Apple I.

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    y Jobs felt strongly that the appearance of the computerplayed a key role in how the customer would think

    about, and therefore use, the computer.

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    The Jobs Aestheticy Jobs knew what perfection looked like.

    y He had no training whatsoever in art, architecture, orindustrial design.

    y In Apples early days, for example, the company shared

    a building with Sonys regional sales office.

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    Jobs Aesthetic Contd..y Steve would come over and look with great interest.

    y He would feel the paper stock to get a sense of itsweight and quality.

    y He had an obsession with the visual and the physical.

    y He had the impulse for aesthetic perfectionism.

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    Designing Without Jobsy Jobs left Apple in September 1985, in an unhappy

    rupture with John Sculley.

    yApple continued to flounder in the first half of the1990s,

    y It is instructive, and more than a little depressing, toread CEO

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    Back to the Future,Againy Steve Jobs returned to Apple in the summer of 1997

    y The company he thought he had joined in 1992 wassuddenly coming out of hiding, andhappilycallingon his own design skills.

    y This only changed when Steve Jobs returned to the company.By reestablishing the core values he had established at thebeginning, Apple again pursued a direction which was clearand different from any other companys. Design and innovation

    formed an important part of this new direction

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    LESSONSy Form follows function. Except when it leads function,

    or runs alongside it.

    y Apple sometimes observes the time-honored maxim of formfollowing function. And other times, including some of Applesbiggest successes, form dictates function, or at least is a coequal.

    y

    Finding the future isnt enough.y Its not enough that you have a sketch or idea in your mind about a

    design.

    y You also may know how to deliver it.

    y Efforts help to make the future.

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    y If your product is inherently scary, go to greatlengths to make it look friendly.

    y The product should look like a consumer product friendlyattractive and heart touching.

    y Even a know-it-all doesnt necessarily know it all.Even a genius know-it-all.

    y A compelling vision can be blinding Sometimes the visionaryneeds a little myopia around just to keep good options open.

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    yHow to become an aesthete: pay attention, and gethelp.

    y If you pay attention and get help from what is around you canbecome a good aesthete.

    y You can also hire coach for this.

    y In the start you have to be conservative working in a narrowfield but as time passes you must become unpredictableworking on a vast field.

    y I

    f you know what they want, give it to them.Ignore the skeptics.

    y If your gut is talking and you have a good past experience thanyou must follow your gut.

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    y Dont go halfway with your aesthetic.

    y Go all the way. The great design companies of the world buildtheir brands through a relentless application of their aesthetic.

    Go for broke.y Innovate, but dont force it.

    y Otherwise, youll wind up with a mouse that looksandworkslike a hockey puck. Take their breath away, but as a

    result of their cursing at you.

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    Questions ???