Jonathan Ive Quotes

February 1967 in London

Sir Jonathan Ive KBE (born February 1967 in London), British designer and the senior vice president of Industrial design at Apple Inc.. Two-time winner of the Design Museum's inaugural Designer of the Year award (2002, 2003).

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.

In The Globe and Mail newspaper (January 2007)

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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)

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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)

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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 more I learnt about this cheeky – almost rebellious – company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative in a complacent and creatively bankrupt industry. Apple stood for something and had reason for being that wasn't just about making money.

Jonathan Ive
— On how he felt when he used a Mac for the first time at college, in an interview at the Design Museum (2003)

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

Jonathan Ive
— On the design of the Apple Cinema Display, in an article by Leander Kahney in Wired News magazine (June 2003)

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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)

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It’s not too shabby is it?

Jonathan Ive
— About the iPhone, in the Macworld Keynote (2007)

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We have always thought about design as being so much more than just the way something looks. It's the whole thing: the way something works on so many different levels. Ultimately, of course, design defines so much of our experience.

Jonathan Ive
— Ive explaining his view on Apple's use of design in the product video shown at WWDC 2013 for iOS 7.

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I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.

Jonathan Ive
— Ive explaining the design philosophy behind iOS 7 in its product video, shown at WWDC 2013.

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