On the anthrodesign mailinglist was a recent discussion on »effective deliverables«. Reading through the replies, one stroke a chord in me:
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read more ...[…] I ve had a few 'aha' moments in my career where I realize I'm basically talking in "user" language and expecting my audience to be able …
TL;DR: The comfort zone is a bullshit concept
When you search for »comfort zone« on google images you’ll get all sorts motivational graphics. There are many circle (»Veen«) diagrams showing that this »comfort zone«-circle does not intersect with some other circle with vague, but nice terms in …
read more ...You know the »list of figures« in academic works. But do you know the »list of texts«? 1 This seems silly, since in almost any (academic) work you have a one text which tells the main content. It may be occasionally supported by images, diagrams or tables if such information …
read more ...Recently, I switched from Wordpress to a static site generator – Pelican. Here are some of my experiences. If you don’t want to read the reasons and the techbabble , scroll down and read the summary.
The best known static site generator is probably the ruby-based jekyll. As …
read more ...Each day they are in my Twitter feed, on Facebook, on Hacker News: Articles, suggesting to embrace failure, to develop empathy as an UX research skill and to treat design holistically.
They seem like useful advices. They may come in the best intentions.
But the only thing …
read more ...Design is a visual and and structural (»organizing«) activity. But for those who design software and websites there is a non-visual world that needs to be navigated and taken into account – text in the form of program code and comments. In addition, text is the predominant mean of creating and …
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The brain. It seems to be everywhere. People do stuff because their brains told them so and some designs and even this blogpost will rewire your brain. While psychology carries the stigma of the ingraspability of our thoughts and the transience of our actions, the brain is …
read more ...…some more libre ethnography videos under CC Licenses. this means you can use them for your teaching and even cut them, (re-) dub them, remix them with other videos for comparison, whatever – as long as you show a credit to the creator and a link to the license.
Image: Writing exercise
A colleague and I organized a small barcamp-like meetup for qualitative researchers at the Bauhaus University Weimar. We met on the 21st of May 2015 at the neudeli, the Bauhaus University’s startup incubator (»Gründerwerkstatt«).
We held several sessions run by participants. I’ll give a brief …
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A collection of free-as-in-freedom resources for user research.
Each resource has a brief description, a source and the license. However, to be sure you should look up the license on the source (this is what matters).
A nice collection of possible questions …
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