John Maeda Quotes

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• Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

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  Meaningful, Simplicity, Design

  Twitter post from Nov 17, 2013

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• Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

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  Art, Creativity, Design

  Twitter post from Mar 23, 2016

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• When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

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  Art, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.

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  Design, Enough, Novel

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2013

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• Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.

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  Littles, Too Much, Inspiring Business

  Twitter post from Dec 11, 2016

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• What’s next for technology and design? A lot less thinking about technology for technology’s sake, and a lot more thinking about design. Art humanizes technology and makes it understandable. Design is needed to make sense of information overload. It is why art and design will rise in importance during this century as we try to make sense of all the possibilities that digital technology now affords.

  John Maeda

  Art, Technology, Thinking

  "Why Apple Leads the Way in Design" by John Maeda, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2010.

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• People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done.

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  People, Focus, Done

  Twitter post from May 16, 2016

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• The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

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  World, Problem, Technological

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• Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.

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  Art, Technology, Design

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2015

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• The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

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  Thoughtful, Simplicity, Way

  Twitter post from Apr 10, 2016

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• Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

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  Artist, People, Horizon

  "John Maeda: Innovation is born when art meets science". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

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• A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

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  Thinking, Together, Planning

  Twitter post from Jun 14, 2016

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• The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.

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  Tree, Balance, Looks

  John Maeda (2006). “The Laws of Simplicity”, p.21, MIT Press

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• Simplicity and complexity need each other.

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  Simplicity, Needs, Complexity

  John Maeda (2006). “The Laws of Simplicity”, p.45, MIT Press

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• If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

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  Great Things, Ifs

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• Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers.

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  Demand, Problem, Higher

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• If you have no fear, no one has power over you.

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  Over You, No Fear, Fear No One

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• My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.

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  Impact, Design, Roles

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• Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

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  Confused, Skills, Design

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• Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are considered "useless," will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously. The arts are the science of enjoying life.

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  Art, Believe, Enjoy Life

  "VOICES; John Maeda", www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2003.

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• When you're younger, think less and do more; when you're older, do less and think more.

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  Thinking

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• How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede progress, but we are seeking reconnection to ourselves, to each other, and with the world.

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  What Matters, Cities, Progress

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• All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

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  Thinking, Want, New Things

  Twitter post from Feb 2, 2014

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• Technological advances have always been driven more by a mind-set of 'I can' than 'I should' Technologists love to cram maximum functionality into their products. That's 'I can' thinking, which is driven by peer competition and market forces But this approach ignores the far more important question of how the consumer will actually use the device focus on what we should be doing, not just what we can.

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  Thinking, Focus, Competition

  Manifesto by John Maeda, www.esquire.com. September 18, 2008.

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• A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood or fancy. This rare harmony between object and user arises from the minimal skills required to manipulate a bound sequence of pages. Each piece of paper embodies a corresponding instant of time which remains frozen until liberated by the
  act of turning a page.

  John Maeda

  Book, Skills, Pieces

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