Podcasts

Sara Bayless Da Costa on the Skills Designers Need to Be Effective with New Technologies

Shane Hastie spoke to Sara Bayless Da Costa about prototyping, collaborative design, designing for new interfaces and new skills that designers need in order to be successful with new technologies.

Alexandre Freire Kawakami on Enabling Engineering Culture

In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Alexandre Freire Kawakami, a Director at Industrial Logic about his talk Enabling Awesome Engineering Teams, the ideas behind Modern Agile and the importance of feedback loops and real usage data for product development.

Mitch Shepard on Managing for Diversity

In this podcast recorded at QCon San Francisco 2016, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Mitch Shepard founder of WiRL about her talk at QCon and the challenges around gender diversity in the tech workforce.

Deliberately Designing Culture at Ocado Technology

In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke with Douglas Talbot, Head of Organisational Effectiveness for Ocado Technology, about the challenges and opportunities involved in creating a culture of innovation and agility in “a technology company that also does retail”.

Amber Case on Modern UIs and the Importance of Calm Technology

In this podcast recorded at QCon San Francisco 2016, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist. Case explains why VR is an important step along the way to Augmented Reality, how technology needs to fit in with social norms, and why calm technology is so important.