Day: October 14, 2014

Following from our conversation today about design ethnography:

The Xerox ad – a monkey demonstrating how easy it is to use their photocopier (thanks to Bina Patel for finding this).

National Nurses United radio ad – “we have something better than nurses, we have algorithms!…We spent millions on algorithms, software, computers!”

Frog Design, “In the Hands of God: A Study of Risk & Savings in Afghanistan,” thanks to Andrew Lambert for drawing my attention to this project. The write up has a lengthy section reflecting on methods and the researchers subject-presence.

From my previous career in the tech industry, “Vineyard Computing: Sensor Networks in Agricultural Production“