Jonathan Ive: Productivity

Jonathan Ive is English designer and VP of Design at Apple. Explore interesting quotes on productivity.
Jonathan Ive: 34   quotes 1   like

“I think a beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.”

Jonathan Ive

Vanity Fair: "Jonathan Ives Shares Three Lessons He Learned From Steve Jobs" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/tech/2014/10/jony-ive-lessons-from-steve-jobs (9 October 2014)

Beauty , Thinking

“It's sad and frustrating that we are surrounded by products that seem to testify to a complete lack of care. That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.”

Jonathan Ive

In an interview in The Daily Telegraph newspaper (November 2005)

Sadness

“The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.”

Jonathan Ive

A reference to the Apple design team, in an interview at the Design Museum (2003)

Memory

“The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function.”

Jonathan Ive

In an interview at the Design Museum (2003)[citation needed]

Way

“Being superficially different is the goal of so many of the products we see... rather than trying to innovate and genuinely taking the time, investing the resources and caring enough to try and make something better.”

Jonathan Ive

In The Globe and Mail newspaper (January 2007)

Time

“I think there's almost a belligerence - people are frustrated with their manufactured environment. We tend to assume the problem is with us, and not with the products we're trying to use. In other words, when our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.”

Jonathan Ive

Ive (2007) cited in: Lev Grossman " The Apple of Your Ear http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1576854-5,00.html", Time Magazine, Friday, Jan. 12, 2007: About the iPhone upon its introduction

People , Feeling , Problem , Thinking

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

Jonathan Ive

In an interview for the BBC (January 2002)

People , Way