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One person's car is another person's scenery.

Our goal is to desperately make the best products we can. We're not naive. We trust that if we're su...

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I think that we're on a path that Apple was determined to be on since the '70s, which was to try and...

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Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A s...

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A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the e...

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There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.

Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and th...

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The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in m...

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Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good product...

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To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to...

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

I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.

There is a clear goal and it isn't to make money. The goal is to desperately try to make the best pr...

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Deep in the culture of Apple is this sense and understanding of design, developing, and making. Form...

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It is sad that so many designers don't know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look pal...

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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.

We struggle with the right words to describe the design process at Apple. But it is very much about ...

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The best ideas start as conversations.

My focus is incredibly narrow. I can't talk with any authority other than design and development of ...

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One of the things that is particularly precious about working at Apple is that many of us on the des...

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I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left.

I find that when I write, I need things to be quiet, but when I design, I can't bear it if it's quie...

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The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things tha...

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All I've ever wanted to do is design and make it's what I love doing.

It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in p...

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

Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience wit...

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Apple's Industrial Design team is harder to get into than the Illuminati, and part of the reason is ...

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When something's made in the smallest volume - as a one-off couture piece - or in large quantities, ...

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That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensio...

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Jonathan Ive

Designer

Born: 1967-02-27

Died: N/A

Sir Jonathan Paul "Jony" Ive KBE, HonFREng, RDI (born February 1967 in Chingford, London), is a British industrial designer and the senior vice president of Industrial design at Apple Inc.. Two-time winner of the Design Museum's inaugural Designer of the Year award (2002, 2003).More