What Tony Fadell thinks about design

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Creator of the iPod and co-creator of the iPhone at Apple, founder of Nest, and author of Build.

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1. 7 Jun 2026

   Our readingDevices should be built voice-first, with keyboard and touch demoted to second and third, the exact reverse of how the smartphone was layered.

   Their wordsWe need to flip it. We need to absolutely flip it, and we have to say, and this is what I always wanted to do with Nest, which is I want to remove displays, and we need to have voice as the number one primary feature, and you build around voice.

   ↗Tony Fadell: How to build real taste (and why AI makes it matter more)youtube.com 18th of 23 in this recording