Curtains hung over the balcony, rather than inside the window. How does the motivation for curtain hanging differ in a culture where the distinction between private …
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Local government office pen anti-theft mechanism. What if we reverse this logic? What would it take to encourage the pens to be ‘stolen’? What business model …
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ATM viewed from the exact angle where display becomes to opaque to read. Privacy filters for mobile phones are common practice in the density of …
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The security protocols for working in Afghanistan dictate that the driver doesn’t hold up the name of the person they are picking up, but …
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Anyone planning to work in China is required to take undergo health check-up that ranges from eye-tests to HIV and involves a taxi ride into …
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Today’s driver is taking me 200km down to the border with Kyrgyzstan a journey that despite the clear roads is reduced to a speed of …
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A beautifully minimal phone kiosk design – doesn’t include a coin-return slot. The explicit design choice of a one-way direction of coins assumes a 100% …
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That passport photo that you’re embarrassed to share with friends? That’s now open to public consumption thanks to Chinese immigration. All passports are scanned as …
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A Japanese phone user (in the shadows, center) conducts a call facing the wall – the body language of making a phone call. The pockets …
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The extent to which you have the moral and legal obligation to protect your study participant’s privacy? The ways in which this conflicts with how the data will be used within your organisation and if the subject matter allows, how it might be used in the public domain?
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