Pen Quotes by Jake Barton

Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle.

— Jake Barton

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

— Jake Barton

People come to museums for storytelling and engagement, and the technology needs to facilitate that.

— Jake Barton

Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies.

— Jake Barton

People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.

— Jake Barton

As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.

— Jake Barton

I often say to prospective clients, 'Nothing will age faster than your hardware.' Even the thinnest touch screen will look like a toaster oven…

— Jake Barton

Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.

— Jake Barton

Kids are prone to be on their phone and their iPads, prone to sharing things and making things. Instead of trying to divorce education…

— Jake Barton

You don't want to pretend that 9/11 ended in 2002 with the first anniversary. So how do you frame the post-9/11 world and play…

— Jake Barton

It's hard to make something feel like it needs to exist.

— Jake Barton

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.

— Jake Barton

From a UX standpoint, the toughest battle is how to make a platform that's really open so kids can use it but has sort…

— Jake Barton

Whether it's digital or physical, a pencil or a pen: line work. Humans are making things. And out of that comes the entire designed…

— Jake Barton

It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.

— Jake Barton