A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.
John MaedaThe problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.
John MaedaTeaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.
John MaedaTechnological 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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