I’m involved in another panel proposal at SXSW’10. As before, we need your votes! This panel is called: Practical Digital Anthropology: Getting to Know Your Users.
The panel description and list of questions that we’ll cover is below:
Most modern analytics attempt to boil complex behaviors down to statistics; but is that the whole story? Are your design decisions informed by actual behaviors, instead of near approximations? We present digital anthropology: practical, high-touch techniques that will give you an edge in understanding what really makes your users tick.
We’ll cover the following questions on the panel:
- What is digital anthropology?
- What is an ethnography?
- Why is it important to get qualitative insights from customers and users?
- What are examples of these qualitative insights?
- How are ethnographies conducted and how can we adjust ethnographic approaches to the constraints of online communities and cultures?
- Ethnographies sound dry and academic, can I just have some simple guidelines?
- How can I translate the findings of my ethnographies into UI and design principles?
- Which companies are using Digital Anthropology and ethnographies to design for and better understand their communities? And how do they employ them?
- With universal logins and social graph portability, how do cross-community interactions impact a single online community?
- How do online social interactions — Pokes, Likes, Diggs and Buries — reflect observed offline social activities and how and why do the implementations differ per community?
Voting will remain open until September 4, 2009. Thank you!
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Unfortunately this panel didn’t make the cut for SxSW’10