Ideas Bazaar reports from an interesting seminar about – among others – ethnography and product design and points to aviable conference papers online.
The Global Watch Mission Report Innovation through people-centred design – lessons from the USA emphasises that people in their social context rather than task-centric users should be considered a fundamental source of innovation. Furthermore it states that “cross-cultural understandings are becoming increasingly important for companies such as Intel who are using multi-sited worldwide research as part of the innovation process” >> download the report
>> Anne Galloway’s comments / summary of the report
>> Social Software: Video presentations of a conference in Oslo