Design Evangelist John Maeda's New Job: Promoting Inclusion and Open Source
Congratulations are in order for design speaker John Maeda, who’s moving on after three productive years as the Design Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Maeda will join Automattic, parent company of WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and Jetpack, as their Global Head of Computational Design and... Continue Reading →
Next Big Thing: Why John Maeda Says Design Is More Important Than Tech
"Technology used to be the differentiating factor," John Maeda says in a segment on Bloomberg TV's Next Big Thing. "Now we don't care anymore because design matters more than technology." Maeda, popular design speaker and President of the Rhode Island School of Design, says that what we value in our... Continue Reading →
John Maeda: Simple Design In A Technologically Complex World [VIDEO]
"Something was happening in the 80s and 90s that defied logic," design speaker John Maeda explains, "this thing, a microchip, was able to do the following: It was able to get cheaper every year, and get faster every year at the same time." As he told the audience at a recent New York Ideas panel... Continue Reading →
People-Driven Design: John Maeda On The Human Experience In The Arts
Technology, with all of it's advancements, can only take us so far. Good design—John Maeda notes in a presentation at the Data & Design Conference—puts people at its core. It is important, he says, to incorporate the human experience into the design process. Empathy and personal judgment are... Continue Reading →
Designing A Better World: CNN Profiles John Maeda [VIDEO]
As part of its special "TED Talk Tuesdays" series, CNN recently profiled the innovative design principles practiced by John Maeda, and provided a breakdown of the popular TED talk he gave this past summer. As he explains in the talk, design is a discipline which is just as worthy of recognition and... Continue Reading →
John Maeda In Wired: Videogames Belong In The MoMA
Do the video games Pac-Man, Tetris, SimCity, and Myst belong in the Museum of Modern Art? Some critics say no. John Maeda, President of Rhode Island School of Design however, says yes. While you can make the argument about whether or not these games are actually art or not, the MoMA acquired these... Continue Reading →