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Jonathan Ive
English
Designer
Born:
Feb 27
,
1967
Design
Good
People
Think
Work
You
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I find that when I write, I need things to be quiet, but when I design, I can't bear it if it's quiet.
Jonathan Ive
Design
Find
Bear
Write
Quiet
Things
Need
I think it's important that we learn how to draw and to make something and to do it directly. To understand the properties you're working with by manipulating them and transforming them yourself.
Jonathan Ive
You
Yourself
Important
Think
Draw
Something
Properties
Directly
Make
Learn
Understand
How
Transforming
Manipulating
Them
Working
We won't do something different for different's sake. Designers cave in to marketing, to the corporate agenda, which is sort of, 'Oh, it looks like the last one; can't we make it look different?' Well no, there's no reason to.
Jonathan Ive
Corporate
Marketing
Something
No Reason
Like
Look
Well
Looks
Make
Sort
Sake
Cave
Oh
Different
Which
Agenda
Reason
Designers
Last
If you expect me to buy something where all I can sense is carelessness, actually I think that is personally offensive.
Jonathan Ive
Buy
Me
You
Sense
Think
Carelessness
Something
Offensive
Expect
Where
Personally
Actually
Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and they have no meaning.
Jonathan Ive
You
Car
Every
Those
Bits
Open
New
Look
New Car
Door
Meaning
Internal
The best ideas start as conversations.
Jonathan Ive
Best
Ideas
Conversations
Start
It's great if you can find what you love to do. Finding it is one thing, but then to be able to practise that and be preoccupied with that is another.
Jonathan Ive
Love
Great
You
One Thing
Find
Finding
Able
Another
Practise
What You Love
Then
Preoccupied
Thing
The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.
Jonathan Ive
Nature
Creativity
Incredibly
Having
Inspiring
Ideas
Make each product the best it can be. Focus on form and materials. What we don't include is as important as what we do include.
Jonathan Ive
Best
Focus
Important
Make
Materials
Form
Product
Include
Each
When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
Jonathan Ive
Ability
Magical
Something
Sort
Understand
Becomes
How
Your
Works
I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.
Jonathan Ive
Wonderful
Benefit
UK
Making
Am
Tradition
Aware
Designing
We won't be different for different's sake. Different is easy... make it pink and fluffy! Better is harder. Making something different often has a marketing and corporate agenda.
Jonathan Ive
Better
Fluffy
Corporate
Marketing
Easy
Be Different
Something
Make
Making
Sake
Pink
Often
Different
Agenda
Harder
We knew that iMac was fast; we didn't need to make it ugly.
Jonathan Ive
Ugly
Knew
Make
Fast
Need
If doing anything new, you're very used to having insurmountable obstacles.
Jonathan Ive
You
Having
New
Obstacles
Insurmountable
Doing
Very
Anything
Used
I think a beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.
Jonathan Ive
Work
Beautiful
Ugly
Think
Well
Very
Product
I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple's tell-tale white earbuds. But I'm constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better?
Jonathan Ive
Good
Thoughts
Better
Made
Somebody
White
Enough
Incredible
Way
Constantly
Seeing
Haunted
Thrill
Could
Get
Any
Satisfaction
Apple
'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.
Jonathan Ive
Word
Nothing
Design
Come
Also
Mean
Much
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