Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design

It’s past time for a new era at Apple

Charles Arthur
OneZero
Published in
12 min readJul 12, 2019

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II interviewed Jony Ive twice: once in 2002, immediately after the launch of the “sunflower” iMac (which looked, at first glance, like an Anglepoise lamp with a screen) and then again in 2014, at the launch of the Apple Watch. Both times, the tricky thing was maneuvering the ebb and flow of the conversation…

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Charles Arthur
OneZero

Tech journalist; author of “Social Warming: how social media polarises us all” and two others. The Guardian’s Technology editor 2005–14. Speaker, moderator.