Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar clichés or a wild scramble for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance. Form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.
I think as designers we realize design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world and we have to understand that world in order to imbue our designs with inherent intelligence.
We see phones as becoming less phones and more a bridge between the analog world we live in and the digital world of the Internet
Nokia Chief Technical Officer Bob Ianucci.
You know you’ve achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
Jim Hackett (via fingerskneesandtoes)