Jony Ive’s next frontier, AI can’t touch taste, the UX butterfly effect

Date: June 9, 2025

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

“There are two choices: designed to meet a price point on a certain schedule to make the design cheap as we hoped, or you can try and design something that genuinely attempts to move the species on.

What used to depress me was this sense that we are solving a functional imperative, and then we’re done. But of course that’s not enough. That’s not the characteristic of an evolved society. And even though it was a small thing, it really did come genuinely from a place of love and care.”

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“Fast-fashion vendors provide Less for less, where you’ll find the article disintegrated in the washing machine by the end of the season, but hey, it was cheaper than lunch. Consumers aren’t choosing between trade-offs, but rather between having a sweater, or having no sweater at all.”
Why is quality so rare? →
“The modern world has made huge advances in knowledge, technology, and skill. We can build faster than ever. We know more than ever. Yet quality still feels so rare. So many things feel unfinished, broken, or forgettable — why?”
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“But commiseration, especially with your direct reports, is organizational poison. It erodes the fabric of an organization and builds factions. It leads to feelings of superiority and creates a low-trust environment.”