John Maeda
“We were launching this GitHub Copilot app that's already in GA... The craft bar is very high now for applications. So we wanted to set the bar with this app... Paul is going to be the first one to be in our integrations of this powerful design skill.”
Source→“I've been pushing moving from UX to AX, agentic experience. And agentic experience is non-visual. It is the world of robots.txt. It's LLMs.txt. It's command line dash dash help. It's a world where we're designing for agentic affordances instead of just visual affordances.”
Source→“Products with small but still compelling markets — the million-dollar TAM products, the $100,000 TAM products — because they were economically infeasible before... a digital main street that can support a product that may have smaller scale, but be more opinionated.”
Source→“Photoshop happened because of the design of Quickdraw's API. It was impossible for there to be a Windows version of Photoshop because it didn't have the same API shape and DirectX... The Macintosh Quickdraw had this routine built upon this idea of regions.”
Source→“Bill Atkinson, the engineer who recently passed away, worked on the Macintosh, specifically Quickdraw, which was Apple's graphics library. Photoshop happened because of the design of Quickdraw's API.”
Source→“When something called Kai's Power Tools came out, it blew up the TAM for Photoshop because people could do weird algorithmic things with their faces or all kinds of filters.”
Source→“There was a famous typographer, Eric Spiekermann, who designed a very popular sans serif typeface called Meta... His company in San Francisco was called Meta Design. At the time, one of the top design firms in the world.”
Source→“Donald Knuth, before that with TeX. He was an incredible typographer, mathematician. So TeX was a miracle in the combination of function and form.”
Source→“PostScript was a miracle because the Adobe guys, the Warnock — the manual for PostScript is beautiful, incredibly well designed. Those engineers understood graphic design better than most graphic designers.”
Source→“I was having dinner last week with Jay Parikh, my boss. He used this word that I hadn't heard in a while: conviction. Someone, a leader with taste, has conviction.”
Source→“There's Max at Notion who used to lead design at GitHub. There's all the Brassell people. They're all over the place.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.