The black box of international development
This post continues the conversation begun in the previous post by attempting to address the spirit of the first question posed by Regarding Humanity: 1. Is the ball already rolling to change the “Development Industrial Complex”? What sorts of shifts needed for process to happen? When I was first encouraged to speak up on the […]
Preamble to a Q&A on international development: Charitable donations, silver bullets and the hapless beneficiary.
If you don’t ask me what I need then is it my fault I don’t use what you gave me the way you wanted me to? Impact assessment metrics for this donor funded project will show how many thousands of households in the region received their chemically treated malaria prevention kits consisting primarily of brand […]
Post-Colonial Design Blowback: the challenge facing the global design industry
By Niti Bhan | Published: July 16, 2010 With Bruce Nussbaum My twitter feed informed me this morning about the storm in the designer teacup raging around Bruce Nussbaum’s post last week “Is Humanitarian Design the New Imperialism?” and I followed through religiously by catching up on “In Defense of Design Imperialism” – the rebuttal […]
Why are they shaming Simon Berry for making an important and valuable strategic change? #colalife
In my 2009 article “The 5Ds of BoP Marketing: Touchpoints for a holistic, human centered strategy” I used Simon Berry’s initial work, with Cola Life, as an example of innovative distribution models, so: Such “piggybacking” has been attempted on an existing tried and tested global distribution network as a way to distribute medicines to the […]
True Confessions: I was an earnest and idealistic Nokia fangrrl 2006 to 2010
OMG I can’t breathe! Photographed hyperventilating with the guy responsible for my phone’s design, Peter Griffith at the Nokia “Connecting the Next Billion” Emerging Markets Strategy Workshop in London, May 2011. If I thought I could get away with it, I would tiptoe out of the room right now. Michael Davis-Burchat has just yelled out […]
tank man
I can’t find anything online and I didn’t get a chance to get a closeup of the board over there so I have no idea who the artist is. But apparently this is the lifelike statue of the man who stood down a tank in Tiananmen Square. Can’t you feel him drawing in the power […]
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
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Crisis Menu offered by Greek restaurant in The Hague
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