Filed under: Apple Corporate, OS
Mike Matas going to Cupertino
Mike Matas, co-founder of Delicious Monster with Wil Shipley, is giving up on self-employment, packing up, and making the long drive from Seattle down to Cupertino, where he will be working on icon and human interface design for Apple. I think this is a good thing for Apple, and for us. Mike has won numerous design awards, and Delicious' flagship Delicious Library software is, well, really cool. I can't say I agree with everything Mike has to say about interfaces, but he's the form-follows-function kind of guy Apple needs right now. He's also fiendishly devoted to three things Apple really needs to work on for the next release: useability, interface consistency, and not calling a beta "1.0".What this means for Delicious is anybody's guess, but Wil's weathered a lot—he was a director at Omni Group before he left to found Delicious with Mike—and he and Mike apparently worked out the road map for the 2.0 release before Mike made the decision to leave.
Best of luck, Mike.
[Thanks, Marvo!]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
jake said 11:55AM on 7-21-2005
too funny.. i tried to hunt down this guy 3 weeks ago to get him to design stuff for me, i couldn't get an answer.. i understand why now :)
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narco said 12:19PM on 7-21-2005
All by the age of... 14? How old is this dude?
Fishes,
narco.
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fra said 1:05PM on 7-21-2005
... whole new GUI for the new MacOS?
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Asif Alibhai said 2:24PM on 7-21-2005
narco,
i think he's 18 now. he was on TechTV or something when he was 16..
at least that's what i know..
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Georg said 4:47PM on 7-21-2005
Actually, Mike has his own blog at http://www.mikematas.com/blog/, where you can follow his life a bit. The guy is just incredible, what he has achieved before the age of 20. Its just about enough to get a major minority complex, I wonder where this guy will be when he's 30.
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