1. Design doesn’t scale well because it’s about people. Computers scale well; people don’t.
2. Designers tend to be divergent people. So put a lot of them together, and expect delicious entropy.
3. The best designers strive to be “interested” vs “interesting” people, as John W. Gardner put it.
~ Three Things That I’m Thinking About Design In Tech by John Maeda
(Thank you John!! Such a pioneer and thoughtful designer! Good luck at SXSW!)