corinna snyder·Mar 20, 2023How Might We……But First, How Did We?I design and lead workshops that teach people how to gather qualitative data, using open ended interviewing and participant observation…
Stephen Paff·Aug 31, 2022Tech Anthropologist Working and Product Manager: Interview with Matt Artz (Part 2 of 3)This is the second part of our conversation. In it, he described his work developing data science-based recommendation systems using the…
Stephen Paff·Aug 17, 2022Tech Anthropologist Working and Product Manager: Interview with Matt Artz (Part 1 of 3)As part of my Season 2, I interviewed Matt Artz, a design anthropologist who has been recently working as a product manager in the tech…
Julieta Saavedra·Jun 7, 2022Subjectivities: how can they help to understand organizational cultures?The concept of organizational culture is key to understanding companies and institutions. Since this term has gained popularity in recent…
Stephen Paff·Jan 11, 2022Writing Ethnographic Findings as Software SpecsWhen working as an ethnographer with software engineers, I have found formatting my write-up for any ethnographic inquiry I conducted as…
Stephen Paff·Aug 11, 2021Rethinking Ethnography in AnthropologyThis is a follow-up on my previous article about the difference between anthropology and ethnography. In this article, I discuss recent…
ThatVargas·Jun 20, 2021The importance of a good trading language.I started thinking about the idea of trading languages a while back when I learned about Swahili. I had learned that Swahili is comprised…A response icon2A response icon2
Stephen Paff·Jan 7, 2021UX Research and Business Anthropology Are Central within Applied AnthropologyHere (ethno-data.com/business-applied-anthropologists-paper/) is a research paper I wrote for a master’s course on Applied Anthropology at…
