John Maeda @johnmaeda.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Design puts form and content together. But content comes first. Good content enables meaningful design. Bad content enables malicious design. Designers with a moral compass must fight for good content to exist. You can’t design meaning from garbage. 140
John Maeda @johnmaeda.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Visited the Japanese American Museum in Portland today, and got a vocabulary lesson thru the various historical artifacts and writings there about a v recent past here in the US. 150
John Maeda @johnmaeda.bsky.social · 17/08/2025“New (hu)man must have the courage to be new.” —Apollinaire designintech.report/wp-content/u... 010
John Maeda @johnmaeda.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Tokens that span words versus just parts of them 👉 superbpe.github.io 040
John Maeda @johnmaeda.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Most new, interesting design trends are reruns. Some improve on the original, others just have better FX. Originality is a wonderful delusion—sometimes it leads to a timely twist, sometimes to a successful remix (see Lessig). 1111
John Maeda @johnmaeda.bsky.social · 30/11/2024“If you don’t fail regularly you are not trying hard enough things.” —Ivan Sutherland maeda.pm/2020/09/21/t... 071
John Maeda @johnmaeda.bsky.social · 30/11/2024I brought back design.co thanks to GenAI + tryptophan 🦃 190
John Maeda @johnmaeda.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Design is both “artistic” and “scientific” -- it’s a hybrid discipline with the accent on *hybrid*. 1200
