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I’m always focussed on the actual work, and I think that’s a much more succinct way to describe what you care about than any speech I could ever make.

Jonathan Ive

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Jonathan Ive
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: February 27
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With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear [would] dial the number. You have to detect all sorts of ear-shapes and chin shapes, skin colour and hairdo... that was one of just many examples where we really thought, perhaps this isn’t going to work.
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A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end.
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There's no other product that changes function like the computer.
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We're very genuinely designing the best products that we can for people.
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Being superficially different is the goal of so many of the products we see... rather than trying to innovate and genuinely taking the time, investing the resources and caring enough to try and make something better.
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I left London in 1992, but I'm there 3-4 times a year, and love visiting.
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There are 9 rejected ideas for every idea that works.
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I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to.
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The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable.
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Different and new is relatively easy. Doing something thats genuinely better is very hard.
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We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer.
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I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.
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I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.
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There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
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True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go... Yeah, well, of course.
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There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.
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So much of what we try to do is get to a point where the solution seems inevitable: you know, you think of course it's that way, why would it be any other way? It looks so obvious, but that sense of inevitability in the solution is really hard to achieve.
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What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness.
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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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