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Jobs’ Impact on the Design & UX Industry

Jamie Holst

Co-Founder

Published Oct 9, 2011

36.88% of our traffic the last 31 days has been on Apple devices.

I think if there’s any industry that will be forever indebted to this man, Steve Jobs, it is the design and UX industry. While Jobs didn’t invent the industry, he is certainly the one who pushed it forward.

Steve Jobs and Apple has truly put great and user-friendly design on the mainstream business agenda. For a decade, Apple has been the hallmark of good design and have shown the board rooms the kind of profits it can bring if you invest in design – which countless businesses have done, based on this single case alone. Who of us haven’t at some point heard a client say “make it more like the iPod / Apple”?

Investing in design and UX is now the standard in most industries. Words like “simple” now has positive connotations.

There’s many things to be said about Steve Jobs. Most of them have already been said, and the most important probably can’t be expressed.

Thank you, Steve. Rest in peace.

Jamie Holst

Co-Founder

Published Oct 9, 2011

Jamie is co-founder of Baymard and CTO. Jamie oversees all of Baymard's technical development and writes articles on general UX topics and on the intersection between technology & UX , like compatability features, UI bugs, search logic, and how it impacts the end user exerience.

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