Explore Quotes by John Maeda

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.

Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.

No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley

Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers.

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

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.

When you're younger, think less and do more; when you're older, do less and think more.

The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.

Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can't do myself, my graduate students should be doing.

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

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

The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.

Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.

What’s next for technology and design? A lot less thinking about technology for technology’s sake, and a lot more thinking about design. Art humanizes technology and makes it understandable. Design is needed to make sense of information overload. It is why art and design will rise in importance during this century as we try to make sense of all the possibilities that digital technology now affords.

Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception.

Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.

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.

A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood or fancy. This rare harmony between object and user arises from the minimal skills required to manipulate a bound sequence of pages. Each piece of paper embodies a corresponding instant of time which remains frozen until liberated by the _x000D_act of turning a page.

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.