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From a Time article, five reasons Ron Johnson failed at JC Penney:

1. He misread what shoppers want
2. He didn’t test ideas in advance
3. He alienated core customers
4. He totally misread the JC Penney brand
5. He didn’t seem to like or respect JC Penney

One thing missing in the main story that shows up in the comments: He never bothered to move to Texas, where Penney’s corporate headquarters are.

The full story: http://goo.gl/m394g

A great video where Jonathan Ive talks about design, and Apple products:

Jonathan Ive design quotes

Some of the great quotes from Mr. Ive during the interview process:

A designer ... it's the way you look at the world ... you're constantly looking at something and thinking, "Why is it like that? Why is it like that, and not like this?"

Just before beginning this hellaciously long drive to Alaska, I stopped in a used bookstore to sell 250 of my favorite books (that were too heavy to fit in my RAV4), but in the process, I bought one more: an old copy of Guy Kawasaki's "The Macintosh Way".

This article contains a collection of quotes on design from Jonathan Ive (or "Jony Ive", as Steve Jobs called him), Apple designer.

For those who don't know much about him, Mr. Ive is credited with designing almost every Apple product since 1997. Given that very long string of success, I became interested in what Mr. Ive has to say, and to that end, here's a collection of Jonathan Ive design interview quotes I've gathered over the last few years.