Imran Chaudhri

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Imran Chaudhri (2017)

Imran Chaudhri (born 1973 ) is a British-American designer and inventor who created user interfaces and interaction designs for the iPhone . During his time at Apple between 1995 and 2017, he worked as a designer for products such as the Mac , iPod , iPhone, iPad , Apple TV , Apple Watch , AirPods , and HomePod .

Career

After starting an internship at Apple in 1995, Imran Chaudhri spent 19 years on the human interface team and was later named design director of the team. He and his design colleague Bas Ording met at Apple in the late 1990s, and Chaudhri Ording joined shortly afterwards as a member of the Human Interface team.

As the head of the human interface team at Apple, you changed the appearance of the Mac operating system , which includes pulsating buttons, animated progress bars and a glossier, more transparent overall appearance. For years they worked to develop a new user interface based entirely on touch and functionality, like replacing zoom buttons with pinching and pinching and the ability to scroll the screen by swiping .

Imran Chaudhri is co-inventor of an essential touchscreen patent that covers functional aspects of multi- touch screens such as the iPhone and iPad. Chaudhri was one of six members of the original iPhone design team that created the user interface for the first iPhone. Previously, he was in charge of the design for the dashboard on the Mac, a widget interface that has been migrated in part to the iPhone. Chaudhri developed a grid of square app icons to organize the iPhone functions, which acted as a stepping stone. The linear design of the iPhone's apps comes from Chaudhri. He is also known to be the inventor of the wobble effect during the reconfiguration mode of the user interface. He also worked with designer Freddy Anzures on the unlock function, designed the "do not disturb" function and helped convince Steve Jobs that the iPhone should only have one button.

His patent for the graphical user interface for a screen that appears on the iPhone's app layout was one of the three patents that were at the center of a legal dispute between Apple and Samsung . The aim was to determine how much Samsung should pay Apple for infringing three design patents that covered previous versions of the iPhone. In 2016, Samsung was sentenced to pay Apple $ 399 million as a fine. Imran Chaudhri is listed as an inventor alongside Steve Jobs in a major iPod patent. Many of his patents were listed as part of the Smithsonian Institution's 2012 exhibit : The Patents and Trademarks of Steve Jobs: Technology that Changed the World .

At the beginning of 2017, Chaudhri left Apple to found his own company Hu.ma.ne , which he runs together with his wife Bethany Bongiorno, whom he met while working on the iPad. The company uses artificial intelligence , machine learning and computer vision technologies to improve the human-device relationship.

literature

  • Leander Kahney: Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products , New York: Portfolio / Penguin, 2013. ISBN 978-1591846178
  • Brian Merchant: The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone , New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2017. ISBN 978-0316546164

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Brian Merchant: The One Device: The History of the iPhone . Little, Brown and Company, New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-316-54616-4 , pp. 15 .
  2. ↑ Zack Ezer: "Five Things You Might Not Know From 'The Secret History of the iPhone". June 22, 2017, accessed on May 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b The iPad's original software designer and program lead look back on the device's first 10 years . In: Input , January 27, 2020. 
  4. ^ A b Brian Merchant: The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone . Little, Brown and Company, New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-316-54616-4 , pp. 24-28 .
  5. ↑ Yoni Heisler: Steve Jobs wanted the original iPhone to have a permanent 'back button' like Android. June 19, 2017, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Mikey Campbell: Apple's multitouch 'Steve Jobs patent' revalidated in full by USPTO. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b Katharine Schwab: The iPhone's original UI designer on Apple's greatest flaws. In: Fast Company. August 27, 2018, accessed June 5, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b He helped design the iPhone. Now he wants to fix the relationship between humans and technology. In: Fast Company. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  9. ^ Brian Merchant: What Is the iPhone? 10 Years In, Its Creators and Chroniclers Explain. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  10. ^ Brian Merchant: THE SECRET ORIGIN STORY OF THE IPHONE - An exclusive excerpt from The One Device. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  11. ^ Brian Merchant: The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone . Little, Brown and Company, New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-316-54616-4 , pp. 209 .
  12. ↑ Apple Granted 19 Patents Covering the iPhone, iOS, Folder Management, the UI Jiggle Effect & Much More. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  13. ↑ The iPhone Might Never Have Existed If Steve Jobs Had His Way. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  14. ↑ a b James Titcomb: Steve Jobs wanted a 'back button' on the original iPhone, designer claims. June 20, 2017, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Graphical user interface for a display screen or portion thereof. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Jeff John Roberts: Thesis 3 Apple Patents Go Before the Supreme Court on Tuesday. October 11, 2016, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Jack Purcher: Apple Wins Major iPod User Interface & Systems patent. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  18. ^ The Patents and Trademarks of Steve Jobs: Art and Technology that Changed the World . 2012.
  19. ^ Brian Merchant: The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone . Little, Brown and Company, New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-316-54616-4 , pp. 376 .
  20. ^ Damon Brown: How to Know It's Time to Leave Your Prominent Job. December 20, 2019, accessed May 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Chaudhri, Imran
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American designer and inventor (smartphone)
DATE OF BIRTH 1973