219 Quotes by Jonathan Ive

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    Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you’re not aware really of the solution.

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    The most important thing is that you actually care, that you do something to the very best of your ability.

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    We don’t do focus groups – that is the job of the designer. It’s unfair to ask people who don’t have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design.

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    Apple’s Jony Ive describes his “fanatical” approach to design in new interview.

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    We have always thought about design as being so much more than just the way something looks. It’s the whole thing: the way something works on so many different levels. Ultimately, of course, design defines so much of our experience.

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    Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people’s minds.

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    We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

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    There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.

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