We designers create tools. Tools that you can live in, sit on, eat with, tools that enable communication and support learning, creating, and mending. Our tools can be powerful, they can be beautiful, and on many occasions they’re not motivated by understood or articulated needs.
Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.
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An American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic".
Most accidents are thought to be caused by what is referred to as human error, yet most of them are actually due to design errors rather than errors of human operation.
The Director of Design at Stuff Creators Design in Houston and author of the best-selling design book, Universal Principles of Design.
High degrees of specialisation may be rendering us unable to see the connections between the things we design and their consequences as they ripple out into the biosphere and technosphere in ways we aren’t trained to see or may never fully understand.
An American–Australian naturalist, conservationist, author, and the owner of Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Queensland.