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Week 2 Reading Calibrating Your Cultural Compass

Kaixin

Saturday, Aug 26, 2017 - 11:54:20 pm

@ Kaixin

Reading Chipchase’s Calibrating Your Cultural Compass got me reflect on my everyday observation. Whether it’s people’s activity, conversation or behaviors. People are constantly observing others, they might judge or copy others’ behaviors. Humans are social animals, so people from a region tends to behave in a similar manner.  Researchers observed with more consciousness, for the purpose of collecting data. An Read more →

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Response to: Chapter 5 of Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Create Extraordinary Products for Tomorrow’s Customers by Jan Chipchase- “Calibrating Your Cultural Compass”.

Jeremy

Saturday, Aug 26, 2017 - 10:55:07 pm

@ J E M S

The chapter of “Calibrating your cultural compass” by Chipchase was highly relatable, as a foreigner who moved abroad, i had to adapt to the new culture. Likewise, I agree that one can truly understand the culture of the foreign country by being in the actual context and by “going native” like Chipchase would say, make the learning and adaption faster. Read more →

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[Response] Week 2 - Hidden In Plain Sight: How To Create Extraordinary Products For Tomorrow’s Customers – Jan Chipchase

Yaaayu

Saturday, Aug 26, 2017 - 10:47:22 pm

@ Yaaayu's

Korean Street Food Culture

Jan Chipchase had provided an interesting guideline on calibrating culture of a place quickly, which is essential during user studies research. What he had covered in this chapter are subconsciously within all of us, but he gave an identity to all them and that will make us take notice of them in future. This Read more →

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[Response] Week 1 - The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

Yaaayu

Saturday, Aug 26, 2017 - 10:38:23 pm

@ Yaaayu's

Chapter 1 of “The Design of Everyday Things” was informative as it pointed out many things that do not stand out to me in everyday life. Don Norman gave a term to classify certain conditions or situations that we experienced daily. He put together numerous everyday examples to illustrate his points to readers and it was easy to relate and Read more →

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Calibrating your Cultural Compass

Pascal

Saturday, Aug 26, 2017 - 10:13:17 pm

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In an increasingly connected world, everyone has the temptation to get as fast as possible to the information you want. It was my first time in Asia when I arrived in Singapore. It didn’t take me more than one minute to download the Uber App. So it was the easiest and fastest way to get to my Airbnb accommodation. Before Read more →

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Calibrating Your Cultural Compass (Chapter 5): Response

Kaywerlyn

Saturday, Aug 26, 2017 - 08:46:22 pm

@ /kaywerlyn

Calibrating Your Cultural Compass by Jan Chipchase has proved to be an interesting sight for me personally as he talks about the importance of primary research mainly people-watching, observing the environment and connecting with your target consumers personally. With the rise of technology, it is much easier to get hold of information that we do not normally come across with Read more →

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Hidden in Plain Sight – Chapter 5

Raymond A Pradhana

Saturday, Aug 26, 2017 - 06:52:08 pm

@ Raymond

One of the most important things I learned from photography back then was probably the art of observation. I stopped looking down at the ground. There were tons of things that I have never noticed before!

Observing little details around me should have become a habit, but sometimes forgotten. Reading Jan Chipchase’s Hidden in Plain Sight (Chapter 5, Calibrating your Cultural Read more →

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Wk2 - Calibrating Your Cultural Compass

Aaron

Saturday, Aug 26, 2017 - 06:42:58 pm

@ atan048

In the chapter Calibrating Your Cultural Compass, the author Jan Chipchase shares his tips on understanding other cultures. In the final few paragraphs, the element of design is brought into play, where local cultures can influence a product or service’s design in the local market.

One of the more striking comparisons was the McDonald’s menu in India, where the large consumer Read more →

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UX: Jan Chipchase Thoughts

Elizabeth

Saturday, Aug 26, 2017 - 10:02:23 am

@ Elizabeth Klare

It’s difficult to not participate in certain activities or read articles like Jan Chipchase’s “Calibrating Your Cultural Compass” without having on the foreigner lens. My primary goal in moving to Singapore this fall was to be open to new and more experiences – to immerse myself in places with background and cultures different than I had experienced before. This is Read more →

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Week 2 Response: Jan Chipchase - Calibrating your Cultural Compass

HongSheng

Saturday, Aug 26, 2017 - 03:05:50 am

@ Jayden

Jan Chipchase has a very interesting way of studying local culture, at least to me. I strongly believe that through activities of a particular timing, it can show how a community behaves, and also functions. Us as designers, we sometimes tend to overlook certain details. Designers sometimes would just do a simple research off the web, at most a simple Read more →

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