有時後逃離設計的死胡同，去看看不同的東西，總是能發現新的世界
我看到一篇Steve Jobs，96年接受
Wired magazine專訪
文章最後段有提到他對於設計的看法
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To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don't take the time to do that.
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.
Unfortunately, that's too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
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他說得很對，對於各種領域經驗越豐富，越深入體會的人
越能將各種想法連結起來，看到創意
Steve可能在暗示我們，他被開除的經驗使得他看見音樂產業的前景
畢竟當年的NeXT，是第一台有CD-ROM的電腦
沒有Mac可玩的日子，也只好把一台幾十萬的NeXT當大iPod來玩了 :)
還有一件好玩的事情
這篇文章我是由一位微軟前IE專案經理那得知的
看來謠言微軟內部有一個偷偷"連結"Apple的部門，果然是真的
2004年曾在誠品講堂上過三個月的建築和當代思想課程
突然驚覺到，鋼筋水泥所構成的建築領域
如今所擁有的創意水平，居然遙遙領先了當今平面和互動設計的世界
一棟棟想像飛馳的建築，看得是比石塊輕盈百倍的紙張汗顏無比
我總覺得從2002-04年Flash大爆炸之後，screen design的進步就有限了
如今建築領域是把建築當作雕塑藝術來對待，而不只是容納空間的機能物體
現在的Flash卻拼命走向google web application 的方向
失去了當年作為web design先導者的創意，變得越來越機能導向
這是我看完ActionScript 3.0後的感慨
