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John Maeda
Designer and technologist; author of The Laws of Simplicity; former president of the Rhode Island School of Design; formerly at the MIT Media Lab.
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- What is AX? 11 Jun 2026 For most of my career I designed the cockpit. I made the menus and the tabs and the flows. I arranged the dashboards and the confirmation dialogs and the little blinking things that tell you something is happening. I wa…
- CMF 4 May 2026
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- 2025 / SimonW Summary 15 Feb 2026
- A JTBD-First Pattern for Agentic Tool Systems 30 Jan 2026 I started this thought in this post over here. Applied directly to NeonJS
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- Claude Status Line Mod 23 Dec 2025 I wanted to use this https://github.com/fatih/dotfiles/blob/main/claude/statusline-git.sh 2. In ~/.claude/statusline.sh drop the code from the repo into there 3. chmod +x ~/.claude/statusline.sh 4. echo ‘{“model”:{“disp…
- Out Of Distribution Thinking / AI Models 23 Dec 2025 Govind’s “Out Of Distribution Thinking” note and some new LLM learnings … Manifold Learning: Bing Wen Brunton Mechanistic Interpretability: Jenny Vega Visualizing LLMs | Layers of FunctionGemma Unsloth FunctionGemma Not…
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- Finding Purpose (2027) 30 Aug 2025 List of things I would have fun doing before I kick the bucket as a note to myself and for folks who are curious:
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The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction: when in doubt, remove.
The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. When in doubt, just remove. But be careful of what you remove.
The Laws of Simplicity, Law 1: Reduce Said 11 Jun 2006
Savings in time feel like simplicity: when forced to wait, life seems unnecessarily complex.
When forced to wait, life seems unnecessarily complex. Savings in time feel like simplicity. And we are thankfully loyal when it happens, which is rare.
The Laws of Simplicity, Law 3: Time Said 11 Jun 2006
More emotions are better than fewer: when emotion comes first, do not be afraid to add ornament or layers of meaning.
More emotions are better than less. When emotions are considered above everything else, don’t be afraid to add more ornament or layers of meaning.
The Laws of Simplicity, Law 7: Emotion Said 11 Jun 2006
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Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.
The Laws of Simplicity, Law 10: The One Said 11 Jun 2006
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- A JTBD-First Pattern for Agentic Tool SystemsI started this thought in this post over here. Applied directly to NeonJS
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- MacOS Run HF (HuggingFace) Model In Ollama, Part 1 (2025)1) Install prerequisites A) Homebrew B) llama.cpp via Homebrew Get llama.cpp via brew: Verify: C) ollama via Homebrew There’s an easy installer now instead of doing it the brew way. Verify: D) Hugging Face CLI (for down…
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- Claude Status Line ModI wanted to use this https://github.com/fatih/dotfiles/blob/main/claude/statusline-git.sh 2. In ~/.claude/statusline.sh drop the code from the repo into there 3. chmod +x ~/.claude/statusline.sh 4. echo ‘{“model”:{“disp…
- Out Of Distribution Thinking / AI ModelsGovind’s “Out Of Distribution Thinking” note and some new LLM learnings … Manifold Learning: Bing Wen Brunton Mechanistic Interpretability: Jenny Vega Visualizing LLMs | Layers of FunctionGemma Unsloth FunctionGemma Not…
- Vertical AI
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- Finding Purpose (2027)List of things I would have fun doing before I kick the bucket as a note to myself and for folks who are curious:
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Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.
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More emotions are better than less. When emotions are considered above everything else, don’t be afraid to add more ornament or layers of meaning.
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When forced to wait, life seems unnecessarily complex. Savings in time feel like simplicity. And we are thankfully loyal when it happens, which is rare.
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The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. When in doubt, just remove. But be careful of what you remove.
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