I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Museums are important. Design and art schools are important because they show how it should be done at the highest level of… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
What’s next for technology and design? A lot less thinking about technology for technology’s sake, and a lot more thinking about design.… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
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… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
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.… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
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… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
