Design

Computer science graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and holds a master's degree in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University. Worked as a Software Engineer for IBM and Bell Communications Research before joining Disney Imagineering in Los Angeles.

Architect and design theorist. Emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Designed and built over 100 buildings.

Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans -- from physical objects to computer programs to conceptual tools -- must read this book, and it is an equally tremendous read for anyone who has to use anything created by another human. It could forever change how you experience and interact with your physical surroundings, open your eyes to the perversity of bad design and the desirability of good design, and raise your expectations about how things <i>should</i> be designed.<br /><br />B &amp; W photographs and illustrations throughout.

Shlomo (Solly) Angel is a Professor of City Planning at New York University's Marron Institute on Cities and the Urban Environment and leads the NYU Urban Expansion program based at the Marron Institute and the NYU Stern Urbanization Project. He is a director of the team that created the Atlas of Urban Expansion online database and the author of Lincoln Institute publications including Atlas of Urban Expansion 2016 Volume I and Volume II; Planet of Cities (2012); Atlas of Urban Expansion (2012); and the Policy Focus Report Making Room for a Planet of Cities (2011).

Author of the poetry collection "Any Old Wolf" published by Sixteen Rivers Press.

Earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Statistician, author, and professor. Received a BS and MS in statistics from Stanford University and a PhD in political science from Yale. Taught courses in political economy and data analysis at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School.

From 2001 to 2017 Ken Kocienda was a software engineer and designer at Apple. In Creative Selection he gives his personal account of what it was like to work at Apple during the last few years of the Steve Jobs era--from demo-ing products for Steve Jobs, to helping create software for products like the iPhone, the iPad, and WebKit, the most popular software in the world for browsing the web. Throughout, Kocienda shares the principles he and his colleagues used at Apple to do their best, most innovative work and to make great products, including the demo-driven iterative creative selection method used for turning ideas into finished work. The book is an inside look at how a group of software engineers and designers made world-changing products the Apple way.Creative Selection is about making great products and Ken's experiences trying to make them. During his fifteen years at Apple, the effort to make great products was all he thought about and cared about. Software was his piece in the product puzzle. He developed user interface concepts and prototypes which made the most of new hardware features, he wrote heaps of computer code to make it all go, and he worked with other programmers and designers to create bug-free software which shipped on schedule, as they all tried to make products which would surprise and delight the people who were eagerly waiting the unveiling of the next great thing. Apple was the perfect company for Ken, and his timing was great. He got in on the ground floor of some cool projects, including: the iPhone, the iPad, the Safari web browser, and more. The book is a collection of Ken's stories and thoughts about how they made these products--the light bulbs clicking on over people's heads, the long struggles to solve seemingly insoluble problems, the pleas for help, the brilliant people, the moments of confusion, the demo reviews, the methodical work, the never-ending demands to do better, and finally, the success of making products which people everywhere use every day to express themselves through words and pictures, communicate with their loved ones, and interact with the world. (From Google Books)

Former Chief Technology Officer of Everbridge. President of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) from 2008 to 2013. Research professor at the MIT Media Lab.

Swiss architect known for his uncompromising and minimalist designs. Winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize and 2013 RIBA Royal Gold Medal.