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Home Delivery Norms

Shanghai: home delivery
Corporate home delivery in the land of home delivery.



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17 Sep 2010

In: Cultural Norms, Shanghai
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Authentification on Demand

17 Sep 2010

In: Cultural Norms, Shanghai
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Chinese market – where this retailer liberally applies hologram stickers to new products.
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Monty

08 Sep 2010

In: Research Methods, Shanghai
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In a land of imploding bank, and a distinct lack of ATMs that support withdrawals on an international card the man with cold hard cash …
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Travel / Bug

15 Aug 2010

In: Shanghai, Today's Office
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Shipping out today for a journey that will span 3 continents, a couple of speaking gigs, and take me from the pot-holed and badly lit …
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Roof Top Blues

14 Aug 2010

In: Today's Office, Xuhui
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A day wrapped around local media interviews and the inevitable photo shoot. When it’s nudging 40-degrees-and-humid there’s nowhere better than the reflective properties of a …
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Design Mind Shanghai

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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Crowdsourcing Design Research?

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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Things That Make You Go Ssiiiihht

30 Jul 2010



Ssiiiihht: that’s the sound that a consumer makes when she buys a spare phone/laptop charger – the sharp intake of breathe that comes from …
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China Classics: The Mousetrap

29 Jul 2010



A flat packed box with sticky interior walls.
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Global Insights from Design Research

A heads-up for Shanghai based folks – I’ll be giving a talk titled Global Insights from Design Research (透视设计调研) with design studio colleague Leizhong Zhang, …
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