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Design Across Cultures

I’ve started a new blog to explore the challenges and opportunities present in cross-cultural design: designacrosscultures.com. It’ll be a place to capture random notes and ideas on cross-cultural web design theory and practice.

These are some of the questions I hope to explore:

• How should the design process vary when end users are from a different culture?
• How do you communicate effectively with stakeholders from different cultures? (Eg. methodologies and deliverables.)
• What are folks in other fields doing to improve cross-cultural design efforts? (I’m looking for success stories and failures.) How can we apply these learnings to web design?

Websites are among the most instantaneously globalized of cultural artifacts; all websites are in a way crafted for a global audience. However, many designers (myself included) tend to view web design problems through the filters of our own cultures. It is these filters that I’m hoping to understand, and if possible, fiddle around with.

Your feedback is most welcome!

February 13, 2007 | Archived in Globalization