Thursday, April 19, 2007

Great podcast

I found a whole bunch of podcasts and presentations from Carson Workshop. I just listen to one yet but that one was really great. If you only gonna listen to one podcast this week, here you got it.... It is Carl Sjogreen the program manager for Google calender that speeks about "How We Built Google Calendar". This is a non technical presentation it's just about how they did it and some insights from the process.

Some words from the presentation:
  • "Talking to real customers"
  • "The importance of the vision"
  • "Figure out what you absolutely have to get right and relentlessly refine it"
  • "Easy is the Most Important Feature"
  • "Build products for people who don’t want to use them"

I think this quote is to remember:
“Simple things should be simple, and complex things should be possible”
Alan Kay, Disney Fellow and VP of R&D, The Walt Disney Company

Find the podcast and the presentation here. I have only listen to this one yet but I think that there are many more podcasts there worth listening to.

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