John Maeda Thinking Quotations

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.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

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

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

Think of the computer as a spiritual space for thinking.

With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.