John Maeda
@johnmaeda
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VP Eng, Microsoft CoreAI / How To Speak Machine (2019) https://t.co/eb6gj2wf1b
Joined July 2008
Metaverse in NYT (2007): “John Maeda isn't real, nor is the island. He is the Resident, and the island is the Metaverse in the virtual world of the Second Life online game. Other works exhibited are a beige Apple II computer, and a dozen or so iPod Nanos.”
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Steve Jobs on the disease of believing that 90% of the work is having a great idea … via @cdixon
http://t.co/4yT1EJlmrx.
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I’ve been carrying around little shards of notes with the goal of creating the http://t.co/uDyV0SvmSR for business. http://t.co/1ImDgWSZUm.
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Good design is about clarity over style, and accountability over ego.
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"If you only see one solution to a problem, you don't understand the problem."
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“An artist needs to have control of every aspect of a painting. A writer needs to have control over every sentence in a novel. And you simply cannot have control over every sentence in a novel if all you gave was a pretty short text prompt.” —Ted Chiang
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Powerful illustration of Moore's Law (128Mb to 128Gb): http://t.co/LT84gCLe5d via @HistoryInPics
http://t.co/uCohb0Sb8v.
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"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten." —found on a wall http://t.co/BIBSpvUd6T.
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"If a picture is worth 1000 words, a prototype is worth 1000 meetings." —saying at @ideo.
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Surprised to be able to run #StableDiffusion locally on my M2's GPU in under 30 minutes. Definitely feels like a kind of 🚀 launch to me — I now get it.
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“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.” —found on a wall
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I find myself listening to this Fujii Kaze Tiny Desk Concert almost every day Why? Well, #藤井風 is unusually in tune with many themes in life that you come upon when you get older — and yet he fills the space with a rare kind of youthful curiosity. That's.
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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when their work‘s done, her aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."—Lao Tzu.
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I didn't think I was going to make any more books, but How To Speak Machine: Computational Thinking For The Rest Of Us happened. It is a primer on how computation works and how it’s transformed the way that business gets done today. Out November 19, 2019.
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“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when their work‘s done, her aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” —Lao Tzu.
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“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.” —found on a wall
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People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get *the right* things done.
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“The things you learn in maturity aren’t simple things such as acquiring info and skills …” http://t.co/KlvP1uLeI7
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“The level of conformity in an organization is in inverse proportion to its creative ability.” —Russell Ackoff
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"Designs that have been cut and spliced from a Photoshop document feel clunky and un-natural." —@timbdesignmpls
http://t.co/ZHgMAmALgn.
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I've always found that talented introverts express their ambitions through quality work as their form of extraversion — and disappointedly watch as the squeakier wheels of extroverts get all the grease. This can lead to one of two behaviors: 1/ resentment and giving up for want.
My theory why quality is so rare is that it is rare to have people care for their work or allowed to care for their work. The culture shifted from people doing their craft to fastest way to check the checkbox.
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Design is both “artistic” and “scientific” -- it’s a hybrid discipline with the accent on *hybrid*.
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Quantitative information builds confidence. Qualitative information builds commitment. So choose the combo platter.
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“Supermarkets in Vietnam have adopted an initiative from Thailand that makes use of banana leaves instead of plastic as a packaging alternative.” via @mira_lane.
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I've been training myself to become a Product Manager, Data Scientist, and User Researcher these days and the 2018 #DesignInTech Report rollup tells me why.
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“If you just communicate clearly, you’ll do better than 99% of startups.” —Kevin Hale:
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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when their work‘s done, her aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."—Lao Tzu.
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Kids make priceless artworks as gifts for loved ones because they can't buy less meaningful things yet.
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The younger visionary is good at finding new keys, and the older visionary is good at knowing which doors to open.
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Winning an argument is less important than coming to a solution.
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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." —Lao Tzu.
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Design used to be the seasoning you'd sprinkle on for taste; now it's the flour you need at the start of the recipe.
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My four rules are celebrating their 17th anniversary, and I recalled them thanks to #TCG16
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“Sometimes the most quiet person in a meeting has the key that can unlock the future.” —a quiet friend.
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"A mid-level engineer improves the product. A senior-level engineer improves the team.” —Cate Huston @catehstn, Mobile Eng. Lead @Automattic.
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“Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.” —Nicholas Negroponte.
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Thanks to @MIT Professor Ishii for helping me re-find "The Bermuda Quadrilateral" from my past.
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“Can you keep your spirits up when things go wrong?” —in a wallet-sized clipping from a past CEO mentor
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“Programmers have the largest impact when they are designers.” —Denning+Martell
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The best solution is the one that creates the fewest new problems.
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My 4 Rules (1999) 1. Don’t speak ill of others. 2. Avoid passive aggressive behavior. 3. Listen broadly, but don’t waffle on decisions. 4. When in error — admit, apologize, move forward.
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Scribbled down Brennan’s Hierarchy of Imagination in 2010, and have found it to be sturdy.
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“No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it’s doing; but most of the time, we aren’t either.” —#MarvinMinsky.
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“People care about their problems more than they care about design. Solve their problems, and they’ll learn to care about design.” —@dburka.
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“Self-promotion doesn’t make you into a better designer. Doing better designs makes you a better designer.” —@dburka
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"Creativity is just connecting things." —SJ (1993) http://t.co/aPQyF3m3FE
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My Four Rules (1999): 1. Don't speak ill of others. 2. Avoid passive aggressive behavior. 3. Listen broadly, but don't waffle on decisions. 4. When in error — admit, apologize, move forward.
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“Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.” —Nicholas Negroponte.
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People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done.
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We tend to ignore the ideas right in front of us because they don’t play hard to get.
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“I found out then that engineering is not quite as important as imagination.” —Satoru Iwata (1959-2015), Nintendo CEO http://t.co/6SpwAIurYL.
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People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get *the right* things done.
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Balancing “What We Do Well” vs “What We Can Be Paid For” vs “What We Want To Do”
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When we become too focused on finding the solution, we tend to overlook the opportunity to reconsider the problem.
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Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.
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Balancing "What We Do Well" vs "What We Can Be Paid For" vs "What We Want to Do": http://t.co/UMiwWMy7hd
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If you’re working with folks in your org who haven’t worked directly with a customer in the last few days, you should always question the analyses they’re bringing you.
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“The Most Important Design Skill For An AI-Dominated World” by Katharine Schwab #DesignInTech
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“We’d like workers with these skills, and by the way, we don’t want to train them.” via @WEF
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10 laws and 3 keys for Simplicity in design, tech, business, life: http://t.co/VX4QtRRUvq
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Great art makes you wonder; great designs make things clear.
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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." —Lao Tzu.
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Empathy makes you fully invested and accountable for THEIR success — for those who are depending upon you, to solve THEIR problem.
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There are designers like classical music artists (honor the past), like deejays (remix culture), and like scientists (push the frontier).
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“We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth.” (1964) —John W. Gardner
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"Nobody wants to fail. When you make a mistake, you can choose to learn from it. And that constitutes *not* failing." --Don Norman
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Work is easier when it’s just work; it’s much harder when you actually care.
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"The way Bernini makes marble look like flesh. 23 he was when he did this. 23!" —@daisyfroud via @beccanalia
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Maria Popova @brainpicker is a 1st-person, Ivy-class liberal arts institution for the Web: via 2014
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“Organizations prefer clarity, certainty, perfection. Human beings are ambiguous, uncertain, imperfect.” —#RedBurns
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“The work of art is a scream of freedom.” —Christo and Jeanne-Claude
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I've found that the most creative people are confident about one thing: their doubts in themselves.
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“If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.” —Eric Shinseki (on my studio reminder wall)
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“MVP → M♥E (Minimum Lovable Experience) = Easy to use, Meets value prop, and Well crafted.” —Maria Giudice #EUX16
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Meticulously roadtested list of pros and cons in modern prototyping tools by Emily Schwartzman http://t.co/xndonDmxRE
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“Critical thinking without hope is cynicism. Hope without critical thinking is naïveté.” —@brainpicker
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"To achieve scale in design, you need to design systems: Design the way you design." —Katie Dill #DesignInTech
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The video-first 2020 CX Report is now live with all pieces available: Have a safe weekend everyone! #cxreport20
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“Fail fast” and “embrace failure” miss the fact that failing isn't the goal. “Recover fast” and “learn from failure” matter way more.
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Computational design and art from Professor Levin’s studio.
My students completed their computationally-generated GIF loops this past Friday, here's a gallery of their projects:
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“You need a really solid infrastructure in order to be flexible [as a business].” —@steveaoki
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“Design needs to move from more aesthetics to more ethics.” —Mike Monteiro #AIGAdesignconf
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