The truth is, homes change over time — and technology has to adapt, not try to do everything at once.

Over the next ten years, everything that has a cord is going to have data in it.

When I encounter a problem - something that's not quite right with a product - I enjoy breaking it down in my mind and exploring possible alternative solutions: Why this? Why not that? I apply the latest in technology and design to reinvent that product and solve my frustrations.

It's easy to solve a problem that everyone sees, but it's hard to solve a problem that almost no one sees.

Learn by doing. Learn through experiences. And this goes back to Steve Jobs' thing - which is the way you open up your knowledge of the world is by discovering it and learning about it, not through books, but by being there.

There are a lot of designers who think they understand technology and a lot of technology guys who think they understand design. But to put them together and make it robust and repeatable for the mass market? It's an art.

Even if you have constrained resources, don't cut corners. People will feel it.