Andy Hertzfeld
Andy Hertzfeld is an American software engineer best known as a core member of Apple Computer's original Macintosh development team, where he was a primary architect of the Macintosh system software and held the title of Software Wizard. He wrote major portions of the system's ROM code, the User Interface Toolbox, and original desk accessories including the Control Panel and Scrapbook, and created the icon and font editors used by Susan Kare to design the Macintosh's standard icons. After leaving Apple in 1984, he co-founded Radius, General Magic, and Eazel, and later worked at Google from 2005 to 2013, where he designed the Circles user interface for Google+. He has been retired from Google since 2013.
“Andy wrote an icon editor... you could just toggle the bits and you could see a greatly enlarged image as well as what the icon looked like at 72 dpi... it automatically generated the hex code for an icon which I could then type in and see the image on the screen.”
Source→“Andy Hertzfeld... recruited her to Apple... wrote the icon editor that made her work possible”
Source→“Don't show him one thing because he'll say he doesn't like it because it maybe forces you to go try and do it again and be better. But if you show a few things then he can be involved and say that something is terrible but still pick something.”
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