Darting around Mazar e Sharif on the back of a trial-bike doing ad-hoc interviews with manual labourers. There are consequences to asking questions and taking …



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One method we’ve experimented with here in Afghanistan is a varient of the ad-hoc, group street interview – an example above showing Panthea (interviewer) and …
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During out wake-up-with-the-city session this morning, ad-hoc interviewing grain merchants, and under the watchful eyes. Talk one of our local fixers through Hitchcock’s The Birds.
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How does Ramadan – the Islamic month of fasting during which time the devout avoid eating and drinking between dawn and dusk, impact on your …
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The research crew takes to motorcycles the only way to beat the Kabul traffic – otherwise slowed by the concrete barriers, roadblocks, poor state of …
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Thanks to everyone who squeezed into the Design Mind speaker series event on Design Research – we expected 200 and over 400 turned up, and …
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Every time a client asks us to conduct design research we’re faced with two significant and often conflicting challenges: limited time to run the study; …
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Afghanistan is a country with extremely low levels of access to banking infrastructure; limited trust in formal institution; and high levels of illiteracy. On the …
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For certain types of research – the highest compliment that a client can pay is that your findings are ‘common sense’. They usually point this …
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Here’s the deal: I know you want your presentation to look good; that you’re under time pressure; and that trying to find just the …
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