John Maeda Quotes About Design

Quotes about: Design

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

  John Maeda

  Art, Motivation, Inspiration

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

  John Maeda

  Meaningful, Simplicity, Design

  Twitter post from Nov 17, 2013

• If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery.

  John Maeda

  Passion, Creativity, Successful

  Twitter post from Nov 9, 2014

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

  John Maeda

  Art, Creativity, Design

  Twitter post from Mar 23, 2016

• Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can't do myself, my graduate students should be doing.

  John Maeda

  Design, Students, Graduates

• Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

  John Maeda

  Teaching, Design, Needs

• The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

  John Maeda

  Real, Eye, Differences

  Twitter post from Apr 18, 2009

• Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.

  John Maeda

  Communication, Design, Leader

• Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.

  John Maeda

  Design, Nests, Ends

• I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.

  John Maeda

  Growing Up, People, Design

  "John Maeda Goes Meta On Design". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.

• In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

  John Maeda

  Art, Ethos, Design

• Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

  John Maeda

  Design, Pages, Looks

  "STEM to STEAM: An Interview With RISD’s President, John Maeda". Interview with Darby Roach, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 06, 2017.

• Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

  John Maeda

  Echoes, Car, Design

  "Videogames Do Belong in the Museum of Modern Art" by John Maeda, www.wired.com. December 04, 2012.

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

  John Maeda

  Confused, Skills, Design

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

  John Maeda

  Design, Enough, Novel

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2013

• Design provides solutions, art asks questions.

  John Maeda

  Art, Design, Solutions

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

  John Maeda

  Art, Technology, Design

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2015

• Museums are important. Design and art schools are important because they show how it should be done at the highest level of quality. Once people are exposed to quality, they recognize it right away and they appreciate it. People's tastes are changed by exposure to quality. Unless they can see it they can't want it. That's the brilliance of Apple - they provide quality in design.

  John Maeda

  Art, School, Appreciate

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• 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.

• 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.

  John Maeda

  Impact, Design, Roles

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