Jonathan Ive Quotes

• It never ceases to amaze me what it takes to develop and bring to mass production a product.

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• Different’ and ‘new’ is relatively easy. Doing something that’s genuinely better is very hard.

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• Perhaps I’d like to design cars, but I don’t think I’d be much good at it.

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• It’s difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.

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• There’s no other product that changes function like the computer.

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• There’s no other product that changes function like the computer.

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• It’s a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I’m aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

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• When you’re trying to solve a problem on a new product type, you become completely focused on problems that seem a number of steps removed from the main product. That problem solving can appear a little abstract, and it is easy to lose sight of the product.

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• The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

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• What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

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• There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.

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• I think subconsciously people are remarkably discerning. I think that they can sense care.

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• My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

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• People’s interest is in the product, not in its authorship.

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• There’s no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

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• Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that’s a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That’s not simple.

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• Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.

   

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• Design is a word that’s come to mean so much that it’s also a word that has come to mean nothing.

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• When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

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• Making the solution seem so completely inevitable and obvious, so uncontrived and natural – it’s so hard!

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Jonathan Ive (43)

Birth:	27th February, 1967
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Industrial Designer

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