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- We’re off to talk (and do) design, technology and sustainability….
We are happy to see a definite theme emerging this year as design, technology and sustainability gets picked up (finally) as part of the bigger picture across the board. Digital Eskimo has quite a few opportunities lined up already to share and engage in our design and sustainability conversations (and hopefully actions).
First up is the […]
- DUX Debrief - Where does the research stop and the community start?
Earlier this month I presented at DUX in Chicago on our Mobile Diary method (link to Pdf of paper). The conference theme was on the shifting landscape of design (and our roles within it). I outlined the re-negotiation of conventional processes and boundaries I see occurring in our design process as a result of research […]
- Design Intervention
This post was triggered whilst reading ‘Designing for interaction‘ by Dan Saffer (of Adaptive Path). I’ll admit I haven’t quite got to the last page yet but I’m happy to recommend it already. Unlike some of the other more amorphous or academic texts on the subject this book is a useful, intelligent and digestible […]
- ‘By the People’ DE presents at DUX
I’m off to Chicago in November to present our paper ‘Engaging With Stakeholders: Mobile Diaries for social design’ at the Conference on Designing for User Experience. The paper describes our work on mobile diaries and design research methods over the last 18 months. The act of doing these kinds of collaborative design activities with […]
- Research group sizes
Leisa has put together a short series of posts entitled Embracing the Un-Science of Qualitative Research - parts 1 - Small sample sizes are super, 2 - Ever-evolving prototypes are ace and 3 - Improvising is excellent.
It’s an interesting take on how qualitative research differs from quantitative research - and how some of the “un-science”, […]

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