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

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

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.

People buy products, and they want to understand what those things are and how they are applicable to their life.

Every person I talk to has a story about how their smoke alarm went off or woke them up with a battery beeping. So you take it off the wall and you take the battery out and say screw this. They hate the products.

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.