Episode 16: The Difficult Task of Designing Across Cultures

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Who Is It For? | Understanding design

Marcus Fleckner

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A new way to understand design. ~ A multilingual design podcast - answering the big question: Who Is It For? Dansk og engelsk sproget podcast om design. Faktisk om alt slags design. Som navnet på podcasten angiver (Who Is It For? | Forstå design), så er hoved præmissen i podcasten at se på hvem man designer til og hvorfor man gør det. Der er fokus på alt fra grafisk design til byrumsdesign. Hvorfor skal vi have fokus på design? Hvorfor er det overhovedet vigtigt at være opmærksom på hvad der er dårligt og godt design?

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Episode 16: The Difficult Task of Designing Across Cultures - w. Jon Vieira

Who Is It For? | Understanding design

51 minutes 49 seconds

6 years ago

Episode 16: The Difficult Task of Designing Across Cultures - w. Jon Vieira

In episode 16 of the podcast Marcus is joined by Jon Vieira from Brasil. In this episode we're gonna talk about all of those struggles and difficulties there can be when you have clients and user you have to design to, who all come from different countries and have a whole other culture than your own.

This can have a huge impact on how a design is pervieved and used. So what are the pitfalls and what can you gain by designing for other cultures than your own. That will Jon help me answer.

A lot of the research and insights for this episode is based on one of Jon's articles he has written for Toptal - you can read the one in question right here: https://www.toptal.com/designers/ux/guide-to-cross-cultural-design

Learn more about Jon: linkedin.com/in/jonvieira & jonvieira.com

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