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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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Georg

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.

July 21 2005 at 3:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Asif Alibhai

narco, i think he's 18 now. he was on TechTV or something when he was 16.. at least that's what i know..

July 21 2005 at 2:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
the1bigboy

... whole new GUI for the new MacOS?

July 21 2005 at 1:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
narco

All by the age of... 14? How old is this dude? Fishes, narco.

July 21 2005 at 12:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jake

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 :)

July 21 2005 at 11:55 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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