A dress code? For field research? Really? Well sort of. The first rule of field research is to dress for comfort – working days tends …
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You’re a practitioner and are considering taking colleagues and clients into the field. What blend of personalities do you want on your field research team? …
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Following on from Part I. The decision about which country to research is often intertwined with a choice of city as the primary research base. To …
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Given the range of research destinations its no surprise that one of the frequently most asked questions is how we choose our study locations. Some clients …
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You’re planning a project and are wondering how many people to commit to the field study. Whilst there are a lot of variables that will …
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One useful distinction when it comes to planning field work is to think in terms of core and extended team members. Core team members are usually …
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Sometimes project goals suggest particularly extensive travel – either driven by the need to have on the ground experience of a broad spectrum of geographies, …
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Homeward bound and one of our local crew ad-hocs his way along the train. Me? Just along for the ride. And yeah, we’re in the …
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Early morning telco with the LA design team. In the daze of the morning managed to misplace the local Chinese teleconference details so dialing directly …
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We’ve not been issued with oxygen masks, and despite signing a high-altitude waiver form there is no real pending sense of threat. In fact the …
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