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 MaedaResearch universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.
John MaedaReally great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.
John MaedaMuseums 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