Today’s office is that moment in time waiting for friends to wake. Our guesthouse lies half way between the bustle of Tokyo and our final destination …
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Last impressions of working in Cairo? A relatively easy place to research – all credit to the local team but given the pace, heat and …
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Reviewing photos taken in the last month came across one that evokes many postive feelings. It shows two of our team sitting in garden in our …
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Two days in a rural location to analyse and debate 8 days of field data before the team disperses. A big part of coping with …
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Being local doesn’t qualify someone to be a local guide. Being a foreigner doesn’t dis-qualify someone from having insights into a local culture. Something that …
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Lo-tech setup for home based focus group – a wire connecting the video camera with the TV in the observation room. The space used for …
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An attempt to understand the flow of the city. Team has a 6am start. The streets are already buzzing.
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Running a user study in the US. The next in-depth interviews are scheduled for lunchtime tomorrow. Between now and then the aim is to conduct …
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