Yves Behar: Good design 'accelerates the future'
By Yves Behar, Special to CNN
Editor's Note: Yves Behar is a designer, entrepreneur and founder of the firm Fuseproject. One of the most influential designers in the world, he's know for designing the $100 laptop as part of Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child project. He's also Chief Creative Officer of the wearable technology company Jawbone. Behar will be featured on CNN's The Next List on Sunday at 2 p.m. ET.
(CNN) - Why Design?
Having one foot in design, and the other in sustainable and social projects, I hear this question quite often: “Why does the world need another chair?” My answer is that the world needs another chair/bicycle/car or any new product for that matter, like the world needs another book. The human and environmental factors of today are changing, and just like books that reflect our psyche, products need to evolve to reflect our needs.
The next 20 years will see a radical change in the way that everything is made, shipped and consumed. Sustainability will be a key driver, but another is how companies relate to their customers through social and environmental leadership. Finally, the experience of any product or service will need to be delightful, attainable, and intelligent. Design is a big part of this holistic approach: How things are made, how things interact with the world, how things delight is at the core of what designers do.
I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.
The work ahead is both humbling and full of promise. Let’s get to it.
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Yves Behar is just a Steve Jobs wannabe. And it's not even close.
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Having waited for months and frustrated myself to the point of suicide (figuratively) trying to deal with the "One Laptop" people (we were trying to buy 100,000 of them for school research in Kentucky), When I finally managed to get a production model, it was junk. Absolute junk. Useless. And that is my perspective as a design engineer (I am currently Chief Engineering Officer at a small tech company). The tragedy was that it was just poor design – meaning, it could have been done differently and the product would have been quite good. It would be a dark day in hell before I even bothered to look at something this person designed and certainly the day after the end of the world before I would buy something. This is a great example of people falling in love with someone's unproven legend ...in this case, the Emperor is naked (hopefully you are familiar with the Hans Christian Anderson story and will understand).
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I thought salesman were B.S. artists. Now I can group some designers and critics together with salesman. Necessary, but full of schitt
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How about designing something that doesn't suck?
Design is the key to great art. It is an elusive and difficult process. I am an Artist Blacksmith. If I make an art object whether it is a gate for a home or a table and it has a bad design. It doesn't matter how well I make it. If it is a bad design, then it is simply a really well made piece of crap.
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Video worked fine for me. Funny. When things go wrong, people always point their fingers somewhere else. It didn't work on your computer, so there must be no other possible explanation other than it must be a problem with CNN. Big fat fail? Look in the mirror, Chris.
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What's ironic here is most of CNN's videos work fine for me, yet I come to watch a video about "technology" and the video won't play. lol I hope Yves BeHar isn't as big of a fail as CNN's video system.