iPad - Multi Tasking Gestures

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In the first apple it, there was no way that you could have sophisticated gestures on a screen that size. So i came up with this idea of using this five finger gesture to go from an ap back to the home screen. There's no other as End end of list. And scott, forstall, hated it. He said they really didn't design for what their aps would look like when you stretched them.

In this wide-ranging conversation from April 2019, a16z’s Frank Chen sits down with Ken Kocienda, a longtime software engineer and designer at Apple from 2001 to 2017, who wrote a book about his career there, called Creative Selection.

They discuss Ken’s unconventional path from freelance photographer to software engineer at Apple, his work on many core products from Safari web browser to iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch and features like Autocorrect, what it was like to demo new products for Steve Jobs, and more.