Tagging: Ethnography

1. New book! Dr. Smartphone: An Ethnography of Mobile Phone Repair Shops.

   An absolutely fascinating look at the the culture of mobile phone repair shops. I want this book!

2. Zoompathy. Coming to a research project near you?

   @bowmast on the importance of context in qualitative, the tradeoffs we incur with remote research and how to challenge them.

   Tradeoffs and risk.

   …short-term reliance on research methods without explaining the tradeoffs may risk training our clients to accept what appears to be a more convenient option. As design-at-pace sometimes seems more user-scented than centered…

3. Takeaways from Jan Chipchase’s Field Research Masterclass

   When you have the opportunity to add new methods to your UX research toolkit, grasp that opportunity with both hands!