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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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Contexts of Use

Something that raises nary a smile from travelers passing through Narita airport, yet immediately familiar to anyone whose lived in a Japan where nets are …
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Three Steps Forward, One Step-Back

14 Sep 2010

In: Dieppe, Today's Office
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I’m now half way through a ~2 month road/train/sky/boat trip that has thus far thrown up some unintentional contrasts: from the manufactured, human scale of …
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Fragmented

14 Sep 2010

In: Amsterdam, Design Inspiration
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In our increasingly display-rich urban environments – the natural replacement cycle of display infrastructure i.e. how long will the car last before it, and the …
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Fragment

A couple of days in Amsterdam – enough time to bounce through our studio and catch up on people and projects. It’s been a while …
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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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Urban Etiquette

08 Sep 2010

In: Cultural Norms, Mazar e Sharif
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The urban etiquette for running a generator in Mazar e Sharif is to place it out by the open sewer and run a cable up …
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In Field Connectivity

08 Sep 2010

In: Mazar e Sharif, Research Methods
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It still surprises me that teams let this one slip: if you’re running a field study – remove a simple barrier to communication by buying …
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Clean Fuel, Dirty Fuel

07 Sep 2010

In: Cultural Norms, Mazar e Sharif
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One of the side effects of using road-side fueling stations such as this is the assumption that the fuel is not as pure as that …
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