Blog Future Perfect on design mind
By Jan Chipchase - May 17, 2011
From iPhones to sneakers, Chinese imitations are everywhere—but these products could actually be good for innovation.
About a year ago, I joined frog's Shanghai studio on a personal mission to better understand the Chinese market, a market that has intrigued and inspired me for almost a decade.
Blog Future Perfect on design mind
By Jan Chipchase - August 30, 2010
frog's Executive Creative Director for Global Insights Jan Chipchase is currently in Afghanistan doing a research study with generous support from the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion. He is working with a nimble local team to explore topics around mobile banking, known in the industry as mobile money — a presentation he recently gave to the US State Department on the subject can be found here. This is the fourth in a series of dispatches from his field studies.
Given the situation in Afghanistan how smart is it to conduct street/ad-hoc research on the ground? To answer this it’s worth reflecting on the working models for 3 different foreigner roles in Afghanistan: the military, NGO staff, and journalists.
Blog Future Perfect on design mind
By Jan Chipchase - August 20, 2010
frog's Executive Creative Director for Global Insights Jan Chipchase is currently in Afghanistan doing a research study with generous support from the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion. He is working with a nimble local team to explore topics around mobile banking, known in the industry as mobile money — a presentation he recently gave to the US State Department can be found here. This is the first in a series of dispatches from his field studies.
The security protocols for working in Afghanistan dictate that the driver doesn’t hold up the name of the person they are picking up, but instead one that advertises the company he works for. It’s an invitation to start a conversation and under the midday heat of an airport parking lot we both want to rely on more nuanced cues to understand that we are in fact who we say we are. In every context there is a cost to getting it wrong. In Afghanistan the cost is higher than most.
