Still green
At the bus stop, rural Holland, August 2013 This post was written by niti bhan and rss originates from www.nitibhan.com
Designing with Understanding
Wroblewski 2007, Designing with Vision The last 6 years have been nothing more than constant proving of this philosophy and approach, as embodied in the design pyramid as captured by LukeW back in the day. As an ardent proponent of exploratory user research (Chipchase and Jung, 2007) this conceptual image just burst into a million […]
Houses of Parliament, The Hague
This post was written by niti bhan and rss originates from www.nitibhan.com
Crisis Menu offered by Greek restaurant in The Hague
This post was written by niti bhan and rss originates from www.nitibhan.com
Carved heads in The Hague
A Sinhala head carved onto the lintels of a shopfront. This one was a little harder to identify. This post was written by niti bhan and rss originates from www.nitibhan.com
Book Review: An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions by Jean Dreze & Amartya Sen
Photo Credit: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi Just over a month ago, in Kinokuniya bookstore located in Singapore’s Orchard Road, I picked up the hardcover release of Amartya Sen’s latest book – An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions – coauthored with Jean Dreze. Today, I’ve reached the point in my daily few pages of […]
Reflecting on this blog’s genesis after 5 years
I started this blog in late December 2008, in earnest and every day during the first prototype fieldwork for The Prepaid Economy project, one of the iBoP Asia Project’s first batch of Small Grant winners from the ASEAN region. For the first 5 months of 2009, this blog was on the mainpage of my website […]
The Great Informalisation: About 50% of Indian GDP from unorganized sector
From a special report on India’s economy It might surprise some to know that most of the debates on labour issues in India, including the provision of social security & workplace challenges, actually revolve only around 7% of the total workforce. And yet, as India integrates with the global economy, its the 93% majority that […]
Projected Impact of recognizing and integrating end-user’s agency on innovation adoption rates
Rajasthan, India January 2009 Our problem statement for the recently completed, two phase project on sustainable agricultural value chains, was framed as follows: What are the barriers to adoption of sustainable agricultural practices that limit their spread and scaling? What are reasons and/or causes of the existence of these barriers? The complexity and wicked nature […]
The Brass Ring Syndrome: When prosperity is close enough to make a jump for it!
We’ve been talking about that borderline where one goes from “destitute” or “BoP” towards becoming “emerging global middle class” or the AfDB’s “Sub Saharan middle class” since the common band that overlaps both categories is the ever popular $2-$4 a day and it is proportionally the largest segment of the population in most newly emerging […]
