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John Maeda

John Maeda is an American designer, technologist, and educator known for bridging design, computation, and business. He wrote The Laws of Simplicity and How to Speak Machine, and previously led the Rhode Island School of Design. His work has shaped how technology companies apply design thinking and computational creativity.

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John Maeda’s career has unfolded as a sustained effort to close the distance between technical logic and artistic intuition. Raised in Seattle in a family whose work was tied to a tofu business, he has often returned to an early memory: a teacher praised him for being good at both math and art, but only the math was repeated back at home. That tension became a lifelong theme. He studied electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, later earning a PhD in design from the University of Tsukuba in Japan and an MBA from Arizona State University. At the MIT Media Lab, where he led the Aesthetics and Computation group, he became one of the early figures to argue that code could be a native artistic material, not just a tool behind the scenes. His book Design by Numbers helped make programming more approachable for artists and designers. ((https://blog.ted.com/looking-at-the-intersections-john-maeda-at-tedglobal-2012/?utm_source=openai))

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The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction
-Law 1 / Reduce
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Organization makes a system of many appear fewer
-Law 2 / Organize
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Savings in time feel like simplicity
-Law 3 / Time
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Knowledge makes everything simpler
-Law 4 / Learn
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Simplicity and complexity need each other
-Law 5 / Differences
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What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral
-Law 6 / Context
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More emotions are better than less
-Law 7 / Emotion
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In simplicity we trust
-Law 8 / Trust
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Some things can never be made simple
-Law 9 / Failure
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Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful
-Law 10 / The One

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"John Maeda is a bellwether for the design industry"

WIRED

"John Maeda is one of the most thoughtful people I have met in my long career"

Om Malik

"As President Rhode Island School of Design, John Maeda tweets mostly about the intersection between technology and design"

TIME

"Design evangelist John Maeda has left the prominent venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to take a job at a tech company"

Fast Company

"John Maeda is a crossover artist"

San Francisco Chronicle

"John Maeda is President of the Rhode Island School of Design and a world-renowned artist"

Harvard Business Review

"I'm designating John Maeda: the "Steve Jobs of academia," and one of the "Names You Need To Know in 2011."

Forbes

"John Maeda, president of the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, is one of the most intrepid leaders in U.S. higher education"

The Washington Post

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