Reuters

“Apple just permeates everything.”

That’s according to Dave Morin, the designer of Facebook Platform andFacebook Connect and the CEO of Path.

At a panel about design at the Aspen Ideas Festival this afternoon, Morin discussed the power that Apple wields – not just as a company, but as an aesthetic and a design philosophy. John Doerr, the Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist and the panel’s moderator, asked Morin about the extent to which Apple affects both the design of Path as a company and the design aesthetic it embraces.

“One hundred percent,” Morin said.