John Maeda
John Maeda
John Maeda is an American executive, designer, technologist. His work explores the area where business, design, and technology merge. He was a Professor at the MIT Media Lab for 12 years, and then became the President of the Rhode Island School of Design from 2008 to 2013. He is currently Design Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers where he advises startups on the business impact of design. He also serves on the Board of Directors of consumer electronics...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDesigner
CountryUnited States of America
John Maeda quotes about
I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.
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.
Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.
Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers.
There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.
Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.
If you have no fear, no one has power over you.
I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.
My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.
Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.
Creativity's about ownership.
I don't really love computers.
The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.
The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.