«design by politics»
an interview with john maeda

q: How could more simplicity help to cope with the enormous amount of information that the internet is throwing at us in the form of websites, news-feeds pod-casts etc.?
a: Computer’s aren’t designed to handle these information-streams. You can make the screen bigger and bigger and bigger but it doesn’t get better and better and better. So, it’s more a question of how all of our schools, all of our psychology, all of our abilities are not designed around the new medium. We don’t know how to design for this medium and we don’t know yet how to have art in this medium either.

Interview in deutscher Übersetzung erschienen in de:bug.
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