Designs for the Pluriverse

Excerpts and Insights from Part II: The Ontological Reorientation of Design

Starting from the local histories in some corners of Europe, the journey evolved into a “global design.” Is it possible to reorient such a tradition and to redirect the journey…

The Influence of Culture in Website Design and Users’ Perceptions: Three Systematic Reviews (2016)

Interesting tidbits

Singh et al’s 2003 framework has been verified across cultures.

Ruth Mirams talk at UX Australia

A process model for developing usable cross-cultural websites (2004)

This paper from 2004 investigates methods of cultural modeling for the purposes of designing usable interfaces on an international scale. Despite its age and slight divergence from my area of interest (I’m less…

Style guides as a model for mapping cultural values to design decisions

Over the summer, I had the opportunity to do contract work for a Fortune 500 company. I was very quickly oriented to their values and corresponding design implications thanks to a very robust, 70+ page style…

Libraries and Coding: Reclaiming indigenous systems of conveying knowledge

Two stories caught my eye recently that highlight efforts to establish decolonized communication systems.

Introduction

I am of European ancestry, but my cultural identity is more complex. I grew up on Maui in Hawaii, a place with no ethnic majority, with a childhood immersed in indigenous arts and language. I spent a significant portion of my adult life in Japan, where I worked as a language educator and studied…

Google Arts and Culture Experiments

Google Arts and Culture has a repository of experiments that bring arts & culture and emerging…

Proposals for further study

This is a living document; feedback more than welcome!!

Final objective

Ultimately, what I’d like to create is a tool, vocabulary, or more accessible framework for materializing cultural values in the design of digital…

ANA’s new airline safety video

This is amazing!