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Jake Barton

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[Wikipedia] Jacob ("Jake") Barton is an American designer, and Founder of Local Projects, an experience design firm for museums, brands and public spaces based in New York, New York. His work focuses on storytelling and engaging audiences through emotion and technology.

Quotes by Jake Barton

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

Aware

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

Computers

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

Come

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

Computers

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

Education

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

Focus

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

Age

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Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.

Create

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

Education

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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…

Anniversary

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

Exist

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

Architecture

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

Battle

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

Live

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

Clever

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Sitting with a bunch of adults and arguing about what's going to be most effective for kids is just sort of self-defeating.

About

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The Memorial Finder covers the gap. It tells you the specific panel and number where you can find an individual but begins…

App

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The Hewitt sisters were these amazing - both sort of philanthropists and dilettantes who went out and single-handedly collected all of these…

Amazing

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A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They're curious, open, interested, and…

Curious

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