How Well Do You Know Your Local User? Take A Walk (or Run) In Their Shoes

How well do you know the local market? What assumptions do you operate on? Well, take a look at this post “Design Time @ Run Time: Putting the Apple Watch Through Its Paces in Beijing” over on the Oracle AppsLab (@theappslab) blog.

Running in Beijing: I survived. My cultural assumptions didn't.
Running in Beijing: I survived. My cultural assumptions didn’t.

It’s a shoutout for the user experience practice of ethnography or doing user research “in the wild”. In this case, I used the example of running in Beijing. I discovered that pretty much everything I thought I knew about that was, well, wrong.

Do you have examples of interesting surprises or false assumptions that you’ve come across about local markets from a cultural or localization perspective?

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Ultan O Broin
Ultan Ó Broin (@localization), is an independent UX consultant. With three decades of UX and L10n experience and outreach, he specializes in helping people ensure their global digital transformation makes sense culturally and also reflects how users behave locally. Any views expressed are his own. Especially the ones you agree with.

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