As vice-president of industrial design at Apple, Jonathan Ive is one of the world’s most inspiring and influential product designers. Since his arrival at Apple in 1992, the company’s design team has developed such ground-breaking products as the iMac, PowerBook G4, iBook, the iPod MP3 player and the iPad.

Here, Jonathan Ive analyses the development of some of the most important products he has produced for Apple. You can learn more about Jonathan Ive and his approach to design in the Design Library research archive.