This link has been bookmarked by 33 people . It was first bookmarked on 14 Sep 2006, by Navneet Kumar.
-
18 Jun 09
-
06 Jul 08
-
In the beginning…
- a largely classic Google product team
- 1 product manager and 3 engineers -
- First thing’s first — go talk to “real” customers
- sounds cliche but it’s amazing how little it’s really done
- real customers, not your silicon valley geek buddies -
- drop dead simple to get information into the calendar
-
- easy to share so you can see your whole life in one place
-
- relatively easy to get basic system up and running: details are hard
-
Private betas are a good thing
- Even with all of our internal testing we learned a ton from testing with a small group of “real users” -
1. Easy is the most important feature
- “simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible” ALan Kay, Disney
- Always have an eye on the minimum useful feature set that most people will use -
- Figure out what you absolutely have to get right and relentlessly refine it
-
- we spent a lot of time looking at the market — online and desktop
- but the competition that keeps me up at night is paper -
- paper has a bunch of great advantages that you need to beat
- easy to carry with you
- doesn’t require boot time
- doesn’t require a login -
make it painless for peopel to start using your product without fully switching into a new way of doing things
-
- launch early and often is the mantra of web companies
-
- relentlessly remove account sign-ups
- this is pretty obvious but it was surprising to me how much of a barrier accounts can be
-
-
22 Apr 08
-
22 Mar 08
-
12 Dec 07
-
23 Jul 07
-
20 Apr 07
-
29 Jan 07
-
22 Jan 07
-
03 Dec 06
-
28 Sep 06
-
23 Sep 06
-
20 Sep 06
-
18 Sep 06
-
17 Sep 06
-
informative talk about how they built Google Calendar. He covers everything from the initial customer interviews and research, to the vision they established for the product, the development iterations they went through, the launch and post-launch reflection.
-
-
15 Sep 06
-
14 Sep 06
Would you like to comment?
Join Diigo for a free account, or sign in if you are already a member.