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Jan Chipchase
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Jan Chipchase's personal blog at janchipchase.com covers design and culture. Since 2008, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Blog of Jan Chipchase (Nokia Design Researcher)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Jan Chipchase's blog and essays by a Nokia ethnographer on how people around the world use, repair and fake technology. HN readers cite it on informal repair culture, counterfeit phones and mobile UX research.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Blog of Jan Chipchase (Nokia Design Researcher)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-04-16
- The Rise of the Super Fakes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-15
What Hacker News says?
I don't think so. It's pretty standard for companies with a global presence – they need to employ to find out how (potential) customers use technology in other parts of the world with different cultural and socioeconomic conditions. Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Nokia, etc. all do this. A great blog from a Nokia ethnographer: http://janchipchase.com/themes/future-perfect/ .
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on “Microsoft Research Publications”Submitted Stickier, Less Complicated Relationships as a story · 5 points
HN discussion>>> Nokia's software was good and competent, but they simply don't have access to the mountains of UX data needed to develop the next generation of OS's to compete on the touch screen. This statement doesn't seem correct to me. Nokia has a vast amount of research on mobile UX, even from before Apple joined the play, probably as no one other company. As a (stellar) example, check out Jan Chipchase's work ( http://jan…
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on “Leadership, Strategy and Qt”Submitted Three Rules To Survive Corporate Life as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttp://research.nokia.com/bluesky/non-literacy-001-2005/inde... http://www.smallsurfaces.com/tag/nonliterate/ http://www.janchipchase.com/blog/mt-search.cgi?tag=Kathmandu...
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on “Ask HN: suppose I parachute into mainland Africa, could I help the people with my Hacker skills?”Submitted Don’t Get Mad. Change the Rules. as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"Perspective is worth 80 points of IQ" - Alan Kay Almost everybody here is focussed on a single, simple consumer niche: rich white people who shop online. Because, you say, that's where the money is. Well... no. That's where 2% of the money is. Maybe 5%. Out there, in the big wide world, there are tens of thousands of other lifestyle niches, other places to see. Take a look at that Nokia guy's blog, http://www.janch…
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on “Ask YC: Could you provide a specific account of how you personally come up with novel ideas?”Submitted The Rise of the Super Fakes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionJan Chipchase (resident anthropologist @Nokia) calls them Informal repair culture. Neither Nokia nor it's competitors publish an official hacking manual. This has evolved from a need to have a cellphone 24x7 & where the market is highly sensitive to price. Read, Informal repair culture: http://www.janchipchase.com/repaircultures . Quoting verbatim: "The informal repair services that are offered are quite simply driv…
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on “Nokia Schematics”Submitted Imperialist Tendencies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRead Jan Chipchase's essay "The Rise of the Super Fakes" for a lot more background to this sort of phenomenon: http://janchipchase.com/content/essays/the-rise-of-the-super...
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on “Chinese shanzhai counterfeiters practice customer development”Submitted The way we find as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSome other interesting writing along these lines can be found on Jan Chipchase’s website[0] [0] https://janchipchase.com/
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on “Preparing for Missions in Difficult Places”Submitted Blog of Jan Chipchase (Nokia Design Researcher) as a story · 1 points
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