Tony Fadell Quotes

Maybe it's my age that makes me very conscious of loose threads, but I don't think that's an earmark of a fine product. And whenever I have a deep-seated feeling like that, I convey it to the person who made it. Sometimes they curse me, and sometimes they thank me.

I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple's tell-tale white earbuds. But I'm constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better?

My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more. All the rest is business noise.

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.

There are lots of people at our company who dedicate their time and effort to make sure that the journey from product design to hitting the screen is as seamless as possible.

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them.

This is what Steve Jobs understood: Brands are defined not by the best thing on the product but by the worst thing.

Reviews are great. I can read negative reviews and say, 'You know that point they made... they were dead on.'

I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient.

Good companies do whatever it takes to make sure apps are great and don't hesitate to add features.

There's a strength to being able to look at products through a customer's eyes, but it is also dangerous.

We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasn't time for endless refinements.

I'm looking for best practices constantly. Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly it's about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it and introducing it to a customer. What they've done just inspires me.

Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.

You launch a site, and you see what works, and you continue to make it better.

The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

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

Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly, it's about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it, and introducing it to a customer. What they've done just inspires me.

It turns out it's important to build a product and not just a bunch of data models.

I like to see people enjoy using my product. This is the mission of an engineer.

People who are using your product and putting up with all these issues, means that they are not actually the biggest problems.

Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product of a design decision.

I'm a game designer, so I care about the whole experience.