A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together. John Maeda More Quotes by John Maeda More Quotes From John Maeda I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error. John Maeda creating errors rooms Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math. John Maeda growing-up math art Communication in every which way is everything for the leader. John Maeda design communication leader Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions. John Maeda design technology art The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human. John Maeda differences eye real 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 Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately. John Maeda design teaching needs The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time. John Maeda scientist mets Creativity's about ownership. John Maeda ownership creativity Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate. John Maeda razors lines focus Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business. John Maeda artist people world 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 graduates design students 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 design people There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring. John Maeda machines computer way Design provides solutions, art asks questions. John Maeda solutions design art Knowledge makes everything simpler. John Maeda As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively - especially when they are well-designed. John Maeda genre journey mind Organization makes a system of many appear fewer. John Maeda fewer organization Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there. John Maeda matter world art With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously. John Maeda people world thinking
