Quotes About Product

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we're doing product design.

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.

Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the marketplace.

The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.

Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made.

Somebody who's designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he's very close to.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Although the rumors are of Apple doing an iWatch, I think that design idea is actually too limited.

You don't sell the product, you sell the philosophy. When you sell a product, you have customers, when you sell a philosophy, you have believers.

Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

Salman Khan has realized that if he markets himself and the product well, people will lap it up.

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.

If you have a good product, like football, you should also think about limiting it to keep the quality high.

We concluded that one thing we can do is to just go through the locker room and make sure that if anybody is using anything, it's a product from one of the approved manufacturers.

When a brand says, 'Our product is great, and we think it'll be great for anyone that loves it, too,' that's the ultimate marketing message.

Designers know too much about their product to be objective judges: the features they have come to love and prefer may not be understood or preferred by the future customers.

Design is successful only if the final product is successful—if people buy it, use it, and enjoy it, thus spreading the word. A design that people do not purchase is a failed design, no matter how great the design team might consider it.

day a product development process starts, it is behind schedule and above budget.

But in the world of sales, if a company were to make the perfect product, any other company would have to change it—which would make it worse—in order to promote its own innovation, to show that it was different.

the impact of competitive forces that drive the introduction of extra features, often to excess: the cause of the disease dubbed "featuritis," whose major symptom is "creeping featurism.

How does the product manager keep the entire team on schedule despite the apparent random and divergent methods of designers? Encourage their free exploration, but hold them to the schedule (and budget) constraints. There is nothing like a firm deadline to get creative minds to reach convergence.