Priya Prakesh: Project Miljul

I'm in a talk now by Priya Prakesh on Project Miljul, which was a 4 week research project to find out how workers in india use their mobile phones.

In fact it's a talk on user centric design, with the unique perspective of indian culture as a backdrop. nothing revolutionary, but i like every sneaking in of a non-californian perspective ;-)

She's showing some lovely photos from the bombay area, and making points about the cultural differences in respect to commerce. ties-for.rent, stores that sell everything from jewery over farm machines to computers in the same store.

it's a bit to theoretical, trying to map the need for mobile services onto maslow's pyramid, the gartner acceptance curve etc. i'd rather have more anecdotes and less theory, but the basic content is interesting enough.

check out priyascape.typepad.com for more info