For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.
Interpretation
The focus should be on collaboration and partnership rather than individual excellence.
In this quote, Yves Behar emphasizes the importance of teamwork and collaboration over personal accolades in design. He conveys that being a great partner and collaborator is more valuable than striving to be recognized as the best designer, as success often comes from working effectively with others.
In practice
In a design workshop, you can use this quote to encourage participants to focus on collaboration rather than competition.
I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.
The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.
Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects.
I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
The whole point of collaboration is that you give and take from each other, and that's how you create things that are totally new.
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is active and purposeful collaboration in evil that brings the Christian into direct and intimate contact with the same source of evil and hatred which inspires the acts of his enemy. It leads in practice to a denial of Christ and to the service of hatred rather than love.
With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.
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