If there isn’t a law about advertising to captive audiences there should be – one hour waiting to clear customs watching an endless loop of Samsung Mobile …



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The person who takes you the last leg of the journey often turns into the first local subject of the day. Sit in the front of …
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Spent yesterday with a colleague refining the goals of our next user study and discussing where we should focus our research energies next year. Talking …
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10 days before the next in-depth user study starts, 240 hours of relative calm before the storm. Sometimes its possible to plan a year in advance. …
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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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Tonight trying to conduct interviews in a cafe in Louisville, Kentucky. Particular challenges are: bad lighting conditions meaning either long exposures or having to use night …
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Drive due south out of Kampala and in 70 kilometers or so you’ll arrive at the town of Kyotera, our research base for the next …
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What motivates people to adopt new technologies and features? Back in March, I had the pleasure of walking around Old Delhi with a friend and colleague …
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Been at Doors Conference giving a three day workshop on Guerrilla Ethnography. At other conferences this would be called a user research methods workshop, but hei, …
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