Arvind Gupta Quotes

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era.

I knew a lot about product design before coming to Apple, but I didn't understand a lot about consumer experience design, which is really Apple's forte.

It's incredibly exciting to know people are using and living with the things I create.

Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.

Product design is fed by the avant-garde.

Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into innovation. That connection to the consumer is absolutely critical in driving innovation. It’s critical that design isn’t subjugated to the back room as a short order cook for marketing or for merchandising or sales. It has to be up front.

Think about the market, think about the design, and think about who is going to design for that market. Hit the mark.

I have a lot to learn from designers.

Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

As a designer looking to the future, you don't want to get lost in the archives.

Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.

Every single item that we come into contact with on a daily basis has been designed by an artist. From the toothbrush we use in the morning, to the defibrillator that could save our lives, an artist is behind the design.

One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.

The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business.

If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.

I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use.

My focus is incredibly narrow. I can't talk with any authority other than design and development of product.

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

I came up with the Enveloper when I was 20 and it took my dad and me several months to develop the initial concept into a working model.

I want to reiterate the fact that at the core of it all, I am a designer, a creator, and as a creative person, I will choose to be limitless in the extension models of my various ideas on design.

Industrial design is a superficial practice. You use your approach regardless of the project because there is no time for a deep understanding of a single product.

I love to see technology from a design perspective and vice versa. I am a 'Desigineer.'

If I look at my own growth, I started in product design. And we grew and created new products, and we were also able to change the idea of design a few times.

Design is too important to be left to designers.