A 5:30am start to the day to a drive down to Jalalabad for a number of interviews in the city and surrounds. There are a …



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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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Overnight stopover in Tokyo en route to Dubai/Kabul – chanced upon a new addition to Harajuku’s already teeming retail experiences: the Mammut experience store that …
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Japanese ATM interface – with two bowing staff members after an ATM card has been declined.
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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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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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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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Free sheet delivery in Almaty, Kazakhstan: does the slot dictate the paper size; or is the slot size a reaction to the types of content …
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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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