Design isn’t just the way something looks. It’s the whole thing, the way something actually works, on so many different levels. Ultimately, of course, design defines so much of our experience. I think there’s a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity, in clarity, in efficiency. It’s about bringing order to complexity.”
~ Sir Jonathan Ive
In a world where more and more people are interested in the relationship between design and the internet, we’re teaching them to think that graphic design is nothing more than a style preference.
The iMac, which he designed in 1998, revolutionised Apple, which was close to bankruptcy at the time. The iPod, in 2001, went even further and transformed the record industry. The iPhone had a similar effect on the mobile phone business when it was launched in 2007. And the iPad, which debuted in 2010, is leading the way in a whole new category of computing. It’s hard to over-estimate the influence of Jonathan Ive. “Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging,” says Ive. “Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you’re not aware really of the solution, you’re not aware of how hard the problem was that was eventually solved.
Zen and the Art of Living with Technology
I am not humble enough to not mention that I’ve had @JonWhiteBriefly over for dinner, and he sketched out a cow for my daughter which hangs in her room.
motherjones:
Yesterday Newt Gingrich bard spokesman Rick Tyler composed a stirring epic poem about the ex-Speaker’s disastrous first week as a presidential candidate. It included the sentence “a lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught.”
Today, Internet hero Jon White has reproduced Tyler’s ode in comic strip form. America still does big things after all.
awesome.
Microsoft and HP show off ‘slate’ PC
The aim of the device is to bridge the gap between laptops and smartphones.
i just wanted to point out that we seem to be designing products to fill gaps not exploited by other devices in the technology ecosystem. The products are then tested by market forces… and those that aren’t successful don’t survive.
almost like this is the way reality really works.
even when you have a designer.
