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British-American designer and inventor

Imran Chaudhri
Chaudhri in 2017
BornLondon, England
NationalityBritish-American
Occupation(s)Designer,
Apple Advanced Technology Group (1995-97)
Designer,
Apple Human Interface Team (1998-2017)
Founder,
Humane Inc. (2017-present)
Years active1995-present
Known foriPhone, iPad, multitouch
SpouseBethany Bongiorno

Imran Chaudhri is a British-American designer, who is the Chairman & President of Humane Inc., a company he co-founded along with his wife, Bethany Bongiorno. He is known for creating user interface and interaction designs for the iPhone. While at Apple from 1995 to 2017, he was a designer on products including the Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, AirPods, and HomePod.

Career

After starting at Apple as an intern in 1995, Chaudhri spent 19 years working at Apple as a designer. He and fellow designer Bas Ording updated the appearance of macOS and worked to create a new touch-based interface, replacing buttons with gestures. Chaudhri is credited as an inventor on several Apple patents, including a touch screen.

Chaudhri was part of a small iPhone design team that made the original iPhone interface. Previously, he worked on Dashboard, a widget interface on macOS. In addition to creating many iPhone features with other designers, Chaudhri created a grid of square app icons to organize the iPhone's functions, commonly referred to as the home screen, complete with its rearrangement functionality.

Chaudhri, who was scheduled to leave Apple in 2017, was fired by Apple a month before he was expected to leave after sending a departure email out. Chaudhri went on to form his own technology company, Humane, along with his wife, Bethany Bongiorno, who he met while both were working on the iPad.

Further reading

References

  1. ^ Brian Merchant, The One Device, p. 15.
  2. ^ Brown, Damon (20 December 2019). "How to Know It's Time to Leave Your Prominent Job". Inc. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  3. Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2017, p. 373.
  4. Zach Ezer, "Five Things You Might Not Know From 'The Secret History of the iPhone'," Gizmodo, June 22, 2017.
  5. ^ "The iPad's original software designer and program lead look back on the device's first 10 years". Input. 27 January 2020.
  6. ^ Brian Merchant, The One Device, pp. 24-28.
  7. Yoni Heisler, "Steve Jobs wanted the original iPhone to have a permanent 'back button' like Android," BGR, June 19, 2017.
  8. Mikey Campbell, "Apple's multitouch 'Steve Jobs patent' revalidated in full by USPTO," AppleInsider, October 17, 2013.
  9. Brian Merchant, "What is the iPhone? 10 Years In, Its Creators and Chroniclers Explain," Motherboard, June 29, 2017.
  10. Schwab, Katharine (27 August 2018). "The iPhone's original UI designer on Apple's greatest flaws". Fast Company.
  11. "He helped design the iPhone. Now he wants to fix the relationship between humans and technology". Fast Company.
  12. ^ Brian Merchant, "The Secret Origin Story of the iPhone," The Verge, June 13, 2017.
  13. Brian Merchant, The One Device, p. 209.
  14. "Apple Granted 19 Patents Covering the iPhone, iOS, Folder Management, the UI Jiggle Effect & Much More," Patently Apple, April 16, 2013.
  15. Tripp Mickle, "Inside the dissolution of Apple’s legacy design team" Fast Company, June 15, 2022.
  16. Brian Merchant, The One Device, p. 376.

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