Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.
John MaedaWith regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.
John MaedaThe difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.
John MaedaThere 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.
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