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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)

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The delight and joy of curiosity and learning can temper our fear of doing something completely new.

To create something that's genuinely new, you have to start again, and I think with great intent, you disconnect from the past.

Ive (2012)

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

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

There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.

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