How to Make the Most of the Pixtles on the iPhone Keyboard?

6min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

The original eye pad was autographed by steve job. The prototype looked pretty much like this. One of the h i designers, one of the my favorite h i designers that i really loved working with, and whom ihad also collaborated with on iphone keyboard, bossording,. he had come up with a design that showed a shrunk down laptop keyboard to fit in this space. All right, so take us in the room. Let's do the the the version where you're trading off. Sorted the keeper with the big keys of the keybo so so now.

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.