Article Idea:
Cultural Differences
suggested by Alexander Wilms on 2007/11/18
I wonder if anyone has experience in working for an international client or cooperation. Cultural differences are an important factor when dealing with multinational project teams, and also have to be taken in account when designing applications.
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Jamie Owen
32 Reputation points
Posted 2007/12/03 @ 12:31PM with
It seems that with such diversity across the globe, the range of experiences—and the lessons learned—would be just as diverse. I’m not sure if one article would be enough to cover any more than two or three ideas. Perhaps a series of 3-4 articles from various authors can give us a survey of aspects of multiculturalism realted to IA and IxD. People world-wide read and contribute to B&A so there’s bound to be a good pool to draw from.
Matthew C. Clarke
34 Reputation points
Posted 2007/12/13 @ 19:00PM with
Perhaps a good communal starting point would be to collect anecdotes. Could B&A host a survey based around an open-ended question like “In usability projects you have worked on, where have cultural factors been significant?” A first article could then be a collation of those stories. That might inform subsequent articles that discuss the examples and propose lessons-to-be-learnt.
—Matt.