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Ethnography
An annotated collection of 2 books on ethnography, spanning 1973 to 2016. Featuring works by Clifford Geertz, Karen Holtzblatt & Hugh Beyer — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
The Interpretation of Cultures
Clifford Geertz, 1973 · Basic Books
Geertz's essay collection that introduced "thick description" — the idea that understanding a culture requires not just recording what people do but interpreting what their actions mean to them in context. The Balinese c…
Contextual Design: Design for Life
Karen Holtzblatt & Hugh Beyer, 2016 · Morgan Kaufmann (2nd edition)
Holtzblatt and Beyer's contextual design methodology is one of the foundational approaches to bringing field research into product development. The core idea is that you cannot understand users from interviews alone — yo…