Design anthropology: What can it add to your design practice?
Dori Tunstall, Associate Professor of Design Anthropology at University of Illinois at Chicago, has written an enlightening article on using anthropological approaches to cater to and understand the 'humanness' in our designs.
"Design anthropology is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand the role of design artifacts and processes in defining what it means to be human (e.g., human nature). It is more than lists of user requirements in a design brief, which makes it different from contextual inquiry, some forms of design research, and qualitative focus groups. Design anthropology offers challenges to existing ideas about human experiences and values."
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