Jan Chipchase
Jan Chipchase
Jan Chipchase is the founder of Studio D Radiodurans, a research, design and strategy consultancy that specializes in understanding consumer behavior in emerging markets. He was previously Executive Creative Director of Global Insights at Frog Design, where he led the firm’s global research practice in both mainstream and emerging markets...
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There is close to zero trust in institutions in Afghanistan. The mobile carriers have more trust than the banks.
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There are certain cities around the world where it's possible to learn about tomorrow's technology as it's being developed today.
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The ability to identify someone at a moment's notice by snapping a photo of him or her, to trigger an immediate influx of data about the person behind the face, will forever change the world.
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Tokyo - still - offers the most tightly integrated infrastructure, where smooth, technology-driven experiences take place when engaging in everyday actions, such as verifying personal identity, paying for goods, and buying tickets.
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It will be interesting to see if Seoul's urban vocabulary of numerous, ever-present interactive screens will translate to other cities such as Beijing, London, and New York. It will also be intriguing to see if smaller cities and towns adopt aspects of Seoul's screen culture throughout Asia, Europe, and North America.
As touch-screens have become more popular, they have retrained how we interact with images we see on many surfaces.
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At Nokia, we have an internal market for ideas. There could be someone in Nokia who wants research, and they will come to us.
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Cultural comparisons are good because they can tell you about what's similar, but also sometimes they make it easier to see obvious differences.
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Even if you don't state your ethnic background anywhere on LinkedIn or whether you are married with children, a scan of your photos and other people's photos featuring you will make it far easier to deduce.
life stuff
There's a whole load of stuff in life that is worth documenting. You see it every day but don't even notice.
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I spend a lot of my time looking into people's bags and handbags - with their permission, of course.
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I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It's called 'corporate anthropology,' but personally I'm more comfortable with 'design research,' because I'm not an anthropologist by training.
technology
Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.
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The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night.