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Jay Hasbrouck
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Jun 3, 2022

Looking Back to Look Ahead

In a relatively recent LinkedIn post, my friend and colleague Kirsten Lewis asked “Where are the thoughtful and creative product thinkers today?” In my view, they’re working at the intersection of insights across disciplines within innovation hubs. These teams typically include researchers who are driving strategic exploratory research and creative…

Drivers

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Looking Back to Look Ahead
Looking Back to Look Ahead
Drivers

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Oct 3, 2021

I Want to Believe (and so do you)

We were all obsessed. I know I was. My friends and I steeped ourselves in a steady media diet of alien abductions, Bigfoot and Nessi sightings, haunted houses, extra sensory perception, ‘The Bermuda Triangle,’ and a half-dozen other supernatural phenomena. None of it was particularly hard to find in the…

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I Want to Believe (and so do you)
I Want to Believe (and so do you)

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Nov 7, 2020

High Intensity

The trailer appeared one day on the lawn between the fifth and sixth grade wings. It was completely white and unmarked on the outside, with a small wooden staircase leading to the front door. No one really seemed to take much notice of it as we lined up to go…

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High Intensity
High Intensity

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Aug 1, 2020

Jumping in

I receive a lot of queries about my journey to and through anthropology, innovation, and industry; as well as requests for advice from people just getting started. I wish I had time to answer them all, but in lieu of that, I’ve decided to offer this post. I hope it’s…

Career

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Jumping in
Jumping in
Career

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Jun 1, 2020

A Conversation with Rita Denny

Take a break and listen to my conversation with Rita Denny! We chat about how EPIC is pivoting for their conference this year in light of COVID-related restrictions, as well as changes in ethnographic praxis overall. We also touch on the early bias toward psychology in industrial research, the illusion of the sovereign and rational decision-making customer, the advantages ethnographers have as both insiders and outsiders in their organizations, and the opportunity to observe social change as it occurs in our current disruptive moment.

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A Conversation with Rita Denny
A Conversation with Rita Denny

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Mar 19, 2020

A Conversation with Sam Ladner

Please join me as I talk with Sam Ladner about her new book, Mixed Methods. We cover some of Sam’s critical insights, including: working in cross-functional teams, the importance of artifacts, creating psychological safety, luxuriating in the customer, and data exhaust. If you’re a current or aspiring UX Researcher, this episode is for you! (Thanks to Gerry Scullion and ThisIsHCD for hosting ethnopod!) And, if you’d like to dive deeper, check out some of these reading recommendations, including two of Sam’s books!

Artifacts

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A Conversation with Sam Ladner
A Conversation with Sam Ladner
Artifacts

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Jan 13, 2020

Rethinking Weirdness

My colleague, Charley Scull, has been ‘unpacking’ weirdness for a while now, and reaching some intriguing insights about its anthropological usefulness. Most recently, he presented some of his thinking in this space at the EPIC 2019 conference. For those of you who missed it, he’s captured it below, just after his introduction to the work: Charley: In this Pecha Kucha, I use an anthropological perspective to explore the theme of weirdness. The talk begins with an observation about weirdness while doing sustainable seafood fieldwork in Indonesia with the Future of Fish organization. It then goes on to explore the meaning of the term through philosophical and marketplace lenses and makes a case for weirdness’ value as a researcher superpower! https://vimeo.com/384242538

Charleyscull

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Rethinking Weirdness
Rethinking Weirdness
Charleyscull

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Oct 21, 2019

Insight or Noise?

Complexity

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Insight or Noise?
Insight or Noise?
Complexity

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Oct 21, 2019

Insight or Noise?

Complexity

10 min read

Insight or Noise?
Insight or Noise?
Complexity

10 min read


Mar 28, 2019

Searching for the Social in the Techno Futures of Mobility: A Guest Blog from Charley Scull

In retrospect, the signs that this was not a familiar research conference had been there all along: the list of participants and their roles within organizations, the sessions on the periphery with the trade booths and café in the center, the prominence of the word ‘disruption’, and the fact that…

Ethnographicthinking

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Searching for the Social in the Techno Futures of Mobility: A Guest Blog from Charley Scull
Searching for the Social in the Techno Futures of Mobility: A Guest Blog from Charley Scull
Ethnographicthinking

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