John Maeda Quotes

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person.

We have always thought about design as being so much more than just the way something looks. It's the whole thing: the way something works on so many different levels. Ultimately, of course, design defines so much of our experience.

Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

If you don't have an emotionally engaging design for a device, no one will care about it.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

Great design is so many things all at the same time. It is emotional, functional, and responsive. It creates an unwritten dialogue, a connection, between itself and those who experience it. It is open to interpretation yet created for a specific purpose. It creates meaning and value.

When I design, I think about the desire someone might have for it and why. I want them to fall in love with it.

As long as we continue to bring in more traffic, I'm much more concerned with building a good user experience and developing tools that will help grow the Imgur community of users.

In art school, you learn that design is much more than the look and feel of something - it's the whole experience.

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

In design it is important to shoe the effect of an action. ... Feedback is critical.

It is not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that bring joy and excitement, pleasure and fun, and, yes, beauty to people's lives.

Good design is good business.

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Attractive things work better.

Simple and intuitive design is what inspires and drives me.

To touch somebody’s heart with design.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.

The design should make the product speak to you.

I love well-designed products that combine form and functionality.