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Information Architects | iA plans, designs and implements digital products. Savoir presenter son design à des décideurs. Good design is invisible: an interview with iA's Oliver Reichenstein. 170inShare Jump To Close Oliver Reichenstein is the founder and director of Information Architects, the Tokyo, Zurich, and Berlin-based design agency. iA's usual trade is website design and consultancy along with the odd concept like the Twitter strikethrough, but the company has also found recent success in iOS and Mac app development. Writer for iPad is a pioneering minimalist text editor, and its focus-enhancing combination of sparse visuals and refined typography has since made the leap to OS X and the iPhone.

Reichenstein recently took the time to answer some of my questions on design and development. Sam Byford: Where are you right now, and what are you doing? Oliver Reichenstein: I’m in Switzerland. SB: What originally brought you to Japan, and what kept you here? OR: I went there on vacation. Arriving in Japan without any knowledge of the language, I lived in a world without words, where, almost like a baby, I had to learn everything from scratch. Good design is invisible. Startups, This Is How Design Works – by Wells Riley.

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