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Around the Table: A review of working in Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a rather small territory with 7 million inhabitants. The city and surrounding area have generally accepted technology as a way of life; in Hong Kong the words “design,” “innovation,” and “experience” are used commonly in business conversation and are generally associated with worldwide fashion brands and the professions of industrial and interior design. The nature of the work and the challenges one faces vary a great deal, as do the individual designers’ skills and proficiency. Designers work not only in the Asian market but also on projects for countries outside Asia. While design has commonly meant “visual”or “skin” design, the notion that design can affect behavior and support goals is slowly dawning in Hong Kong, where local companies are beginning to hire interaction designers. The recent addition of a one-year interaction design program at Hong Kong Polytechnic University has helped raise awareness of this discipline…

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Posted by ada on July 19th, 2009 at 4:03 am:

I cannot agree more with Adler’s article (what the interviewees said). I often find myself in situations where I just scramble to finish a design or a piece of user research work with limited resource (no money for recruitment) and limited time (no indepth analysis) (no matter we are talking about in-house or third-party consulting).

Impact of design or user research seems to be difficult to measure/visualize. (It’s not like… If you give me x dollars, I can give you a 17-inch LCD. If you give me y more dollars / y more days, I can give you 19-inch one.)

Some people say that I should focus on what I can change/control. I guess that would be my attitudes, my next moves…

 

 


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