December 2009
15 posts
WatchDezeen Podcast: Dieter Rams at the Design Museum
There’s nothing personal anymore. To me, there is a real sacredness to privacy, especially because we live in an exhibitionist culture. There’s such a magnitude of record taking. It’s so exhaustive. Bandwidth and hard drive space are able to accommodate limitless capacities to take a record of anything and everything.
Sufjan Stevens
A wise Man will desire no more, than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute chearfully, and leave contentedly.
Richard Says
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There are still a lot of things to do in the field of design, but it is not spectacularly to improve products, to make them for example more self-explanatory, which is a very important thing – especially with the new technologies.
If you look at some of the architects and especially designers, they are more looking on spectacular things than to improve things.
Dieter Rams
The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative… … A preoccupation with differentiation is the concern of many corporations rather than trying to innovate and genuinely taking the time, investing the resources and caring enough to try and make something better.
Jonathan Ive
Do nothing I cannot defend. Cover, write and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me. Assume there is at least one other side or version to every story. Assume the viewer is as smart and as caring and as good a person as I am. Assume the same about all people on whom I report.
Assume personal lives are a private matter, until a legitimate turn in the story...
If you need a manual, then the system doesn’t work. If you need training, the system doesn’t work.
Computers don’t save hospitals money