Tony Fadell Quotes

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

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

Good products are built by people who want to use it themselves

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.

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.

I'm a Libra. I'm happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in my chart as a whole - some more water would be useful, especially in my personal life, as an emotional counterweight to all that abstraction.

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

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.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.

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.

Reason without passion is sterile, but passion without reason is hysteria.

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.

I ended up going to do a matches program at the state for industrial design. And from there, I got hired at IDEO to joint their design team there - and basically, you are starting as an industrial designer to design products - and then kept asking the question, 'What else can design accomplish? What else can design do?'

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

My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.

For a lot of artists in the entertainment industry, we can't become too jaded with what's going on with our personal lives and still not be connected with our people.

I looked at different products we could do, and the marshmallows were the most fun to develop.

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

The way we want to look at it is we would like to do end-to-end design in India. We've invested for many years, and so at some point, to do end-to-end product in India is very much a possibility.

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

Find a balance between head and heart.