Cross-cultural Design

Cross-cultural Design
Author: Henry Steiner
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Arts graphiques
ISBN: 9780500974230

Cross-Cultural Design is the first book to examine the challenges and rewards experienced by the world's leading communication professionals when handling assignments outside their own cultures. The solutions to these marketing problems are documented here in 309 stunning full-colour images, accompanied by the creators' provocative descriptions of their setbacks, triumphs and discoveries.The works shown range from designs for advertisements, corporate identity programmes, annual reports, films, packages, books, magazines, posters and signage to currency, postage stamps and environmental graphics. Among clients represented are banks, print media, software companies, airlines, governments and manufacturing firms.This anthology is introduced by Henry Steiner's stimulating essay "Spam Sushi and Chameleons", which articulates the issues and provides conceptual ideas for succeeding in the global marketplace. In the pages that follow, the work of such outstanding professionals as Saul Bass, Walter Bernard, Ken Cato, Ivan Chermayeff, Joe Duffy, Alan Fletcher, Dan Friedman, Milton Glaser, Eiko Ishioka, Tibor Kalman, Clement Mok, Erik Spiekermann and Henry Wolf is illustrated and discussed. This unique volume also includes much practical information, a contributors' directory, an extensive bibliography and a thorough index. Cross-Cultural Design will be welcomed as both a thought-provoking exploration of international design and an invaluable reference source for designers, advertising agencies, marketing professionals, business corporations, scholars and students.

Cross-Cultural Design for IT Products and Services

Cross-Cultural Design for IT Products and Services
Author: Pei-Luen Rau
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2012-12-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1439838747

With the increase of globalization of business and industry, IT products and services are often produced and marketed across geographical cultural boundaries without adequate consideration of culture. There is a high probability that IT products and services developed in one country may not be effectively used in another country, which may hinder t

Cross-Cultural Design for Healthy Ageing

Cross-Cultural Design for Healthy Ageing
Author: Lisa Scharoun
Publisher: Global Health Humanities
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-01-22
Genre: Aging
ISBN: 9781789383089

This book examines some of the challenges associated with ageing in multi-cultural societies. We explore some of the major issues facing society in the area of 'healthy ageing' and propose a method of working with cross-disciplinary groups of health practitioners, designers, architects and cultural practitioners. Through case-studies of a series of workshops run in China and Singapore with Australian, Chinese and Singaporean students, we review the benefits of this approach and provide a framework for engaging designers, planners and health professionals in the process of creating new design solutions for the growing global ageing population.

Designing Across Cultures

Designing Across Cultures
Author: Ronnie Lipton
Publisher: HOW Books
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2002-03-05
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Designing Across Cultures shows designers how to create effective advertisements and designs for other ethnic groups by understanding which symbols, images, colors and typography they find most appealing--and which they don't. Freelancers and graphic design agencies alike will find this book invaluable. It features examples, case studies, before & after comparisons and the dos and don'ts of designing for other cultures. Also included are interviews with heads from some of the leading agencies, providing even more great advice for designers.

Cross-Cultural Technology Design

Cross-Cultural Technology Design
Author: Huatong Sun
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2012-03-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199744769

This book explores how to create culture-sensitive technology for local users in an increasingly globalized world with rising participatory culture. Illustrated with a cross-cultural study of mobile messaging use, Sun presents an innovative framework integrating action and meaning through a dialogical, cyclical design process to create usable and meaningful technology.

Cross-cultural Urban Design

Cross-cultural Urban Design
Author: Catherin Jane Bull
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0415432790

Explores how urban design has responded to the trends towards global standardisation. Following analysis of its practice in the local domain, this book looks at how urban planning and design should be repositioned. It looks at: population; urbanization; suburbanization; tourism; commercialization; environmental degradation; and, flow of capital.

Cross-Cultural Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience Design

Cross-Cultural Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience Design
Author: Jan Brejcha
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2015-02-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1040073751

This book describes patterns of language and culture in human-computer interaction (HCI). Through numerous examples, it shows why these patterns matter and how to exploit them to design a better user experience (UX) with computer systems. It provides scientific information on the theoretical and practical areas of the interaction and communication design for research experts and industry practitioners and covers the latest research in semiotics and cultural studies, bringing a set of tools and methods to benefit the process of designing with the cultural background in mind.

Commonsense Architecture

Commonsense Architecture
Author: John S. Taylor
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1986
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780393303308

Examines the efficient use of building materials, the responsiveness of architecture to basic human needs, and the relationship between a building and its environment

Culture, Architecture, and Design

Culture, Architecture, and Design
Author: Amos Rapoport
Publisher:
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2005
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

The three basic questions of EBS are (1) What bio-social, psychological, and cultural characteristics of human beings influence which characteristics of the built environment?; (2) What effects do which aspects of which environments have on which groups of people, under what circumstances, and when, why, and how?; and (3) Given this two-way interaction between people and environments, there must be mechanisms that link them. What are these mechanisms?Focusing on answers to these and other questions, "Culture, Architecture, and Design" discusses the relationship between culture, the built environment, and design by showing that the purpose of design is to create environments that suit users and is, therefore, user-oriented. Design must also be based on knowledge of how people and environments interact. Thus, design needs to respond to culture. In discussing (1) the nature and role of Environment-Behavior Studies (EBS); (2) the types of environments; (3) the importance of culture; (4) preference, choice, and design; (5) the nature of culture; (6) the scale of culture; and (7) how to make culture usable, Amos Rapoport states that there needs to be a ?change from designing for one?s own culture to understanding and designing for users? cultures and basing design on research in EBS, anthropology, and other relevant fields. Such changes should transform architecture and design so that it, in fact, does what it claims to do and is supposed to do ? create better (i.e., more supportive) environments.?