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Michael Darius
Apple pioneer, skeuomorph & protégé of Steve Jobs
About me
Hi there 👋, I design human futures. Things I Started: 💌 Apple Webmail 🕸️ Web 2.0 🎁 Apple’s first gift card experience 🎵 iTunes Music Store ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ Star ratings 🔒 Login using Email address 🎛️ Mac OS X Dashboard ☁️ Cloud-based Storage (iDisk) ☁️ Cloud-based Services (iTools & .Mac) 🔖 .Mac Bookmarks 🎧 Pepsi 1 in 3 Free Song Campaign 🎶 iTunes Producer 🎼 iTunes Essentials 🎸 Garageband 🎧 Playlist Sharing 🖼️ iLife 🖥️ The digital hub strategy 💻 The digital lifestyle Apple's Applications Design Team Apple's Content Production Team Things I can help with: 🍼 Startup Babysitting 🥀 Human Futures Planning 💬 Application Design Feedback 🎓 Executive Design Leadership 📐 Executive Design Planning 🏗️ Building & Scaling a Design Organization 📈 Getting your Pitchdeck in Order 📖 Building your Brand Book 🎨 Design Language Guidance ⚙️ Design Systems Direction 🔍 Touchpoint Analysis 🛤️ User Journeys 🆕 Onboarding 🌐 Platform Strategies 🖼️ Presentation Design During my unparalleled design journey at Apple, I held a cardinal position in forging the design language that now stands as a hallmark of the brand. Getting to work with my heroes, I was guided directly by luminaries like Steve Jobs and rigorously trained by CKS, immersing myself in Apple's core ethos, establishing a potent design philosophy still felt around the world. Each company needs to have a clear understanding of the key emotional connectors that tie audience to product. My techniques have been proven to uncover connectors in order to inform a company’s overall business strategy while strengthening the ties between products, brands and audience for many breakthrough product experiences known to billions. My approach to humanizing the design process begins with translating unmet customer needs into product strategy. Through synthesis I conduct research, design diagrams, and build prototypes. Exploring the connection between experience and meaning in an accessible manner allows me to shift thinking and focus on meaningful and connected strategies for products and services so that my design work may connect with people in a more visceral way by gathering audience data to gain insights into how people live their lives. — Every great designer knows that nothing has ever been conceived that was built by having only one pair of eyes on a design problem. It is the nature of our art as designers to need a minimum of two sets of eyes. That's why I've made my booking links available to anyone who has been staring at their screen for too long at a design problem and just need to take a break to get a second opinion. You can book with me on intro.co/darius (if you aren't in need of screensharing) or darius.design if you just need an extra set of eyes on a design problem and need help vetting what you are building.
What to expect
15 minute session
- - usability feedback
- - business direction (10,000ft view)
- - revenue opportunities
- - extra set of eyes on a design problem
- - no nonsense tips
- - quick honest answers
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$225 • Session
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