Mike Matas
Mike Matas | |
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 Matas, July 2007 | |
| Born | March 23, 1986 Seattle, Washington, United States |
| Other names | Michael Matas |
| Occupation | User interface designer |
| Employer | LoveFrom |
Michael Matas (born March 23, 1986) is an American user interface designer and icon artist. He has previously worked at The Omni Group doing interface and graphic design work. Matas co-founded Delicious Monster. In 2005 he went to work for Apple, where he designed user interfaces and artwork for the iPhone, the iPad and Mac OS X.
Now, he's the co-founder of Push Pop Press, a digital publishing company just purchased by Facebook. Push Pop's first title is Al Gore's "Our Choice" in 2004 together with Wil Shipley[1] playable on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.
He later worked at Apple, Inc. and designed some of the major user interfaces in Mac OS X, iOS for Apple products.[2][3] In addition, he has been listed as the co-inventor on patents Apple has filed.[4]
He later left Apple.[5]
Career
[edit]During his time at Facebook he was integral to the design of Facebook Paper (along with Kimon Tsinteris). Facebook Paper's direct descendent was also created by Matas and Tsinteris, Facebook Instant Articles.[6]
Nest
[edit]After Apple, Matas worked on the team that designed the Nest Learning Thermostat.[7] He then founded Push Pop Press, a digital publishing company that created Al Gore's interactive book Our Choice.[8][9]
Matas presented at TED in 2011 on his work at Push Pop for Al Gore's interactive book Our Choice.[10][11]
Lobe.ai
[edit]Matas founded Lobe.ai with Adam Menges, and Markus Beissinger.[12] Lobe.ai is "creating an easy-to-use visual tool to help give people from diverse backgrounds and disciplines the ability to invent with deep learning".[13] It was announced that Lobe would be acquired by Microsoft in September 2018.[14]
LoveFrom
[edit]In October 2021, Mike announced on Twitter that he had joined LoveFrom, the design firm that Sir Jony Ive and Marc Newson started after their departure from Apple.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ Matas, Mike. "Mike Matas | Speaker | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
- ^ "Delicious Monster co-founder joins Apple interface team". AppleInsider. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
- ^ am, Jay Savage | | July 21, 2005 at 10:30 am July 21, 2005 10:30. "Mike Matas going to Cupertino". Engadget. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Interview: Mike Matas, Cocoia Blog, retrieved July 12, 2010
- ^ Mike Matas – About, Mike Matas, retrieved July 12, 2010
- ^ Metz, Cade. "How Facebook Turned Unloved 'Paper' Into 'Instant Articles'". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
- ^ "The Father of the iPod Has Invented The Smartest, Coolest Thermostat You'll Ever See | Cult of Mac". Cult of Mac. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
- ^ "Al Gore's 'Our Choice' App Reinvents Books, Reading". The Huffington Post. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
- ^ "Push Pop Press: Al Gore's Our Choice". pushpoppress.com. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
- ^ "Facebook's Mysterious Hire: The Guy Who Designed Much of the iPhone". readwrite.com. August 3, 2011.
- ^ "Mike Matas". Mike Matas. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
- ^ "Lobe | Deep Learning Made Simple". lobe.ai. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
- ^ "Mike Matas - About". Retrieved May 4, 2019.
- ^ "Microsoft acquires Lobe to help bring AI development capability to everyone". Retrieved September 13, 2018.
- ^ Matas, Mike (October 15, 2021). "Mike Matas on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved January 17, 2022.