John Maeda Quotes

How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede progress, but we are seeking reconnection to ourselves, to each other, and with the world.

Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.

I don't really love computers.

Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.

Creativity's about ownership.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.

Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.

I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

Technological 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.

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.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.