19 Quotes by Jake Barton

Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.

Sitting with a bunch of adults and arguing about what's going to be most effective for kids is just sort of self-defeating.

Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle.

From a UX standpoint, the toughest battle is how to make a platform that's really open so kids can use it but has sort of hooks and constraints so it's actually driving towards revealing parts of the world through science or through mathematics.

Kids are prone to be on their phone and their iPads, prone to sharing things and making things. Instead of trying to divorce education from that, let's lean into that.

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.

Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies.

People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.

Whether it's digital or physical, a pencil or a pen: line work. Humans are making things. And out of that comes the entire designed world we live within.