There won’t be one way to be after the pandemic, because there was no one way to be before it – and certainly not during it. Masks are just one example. We’re in that in-between space, again, which seems to come just before a new wave of a COVID variant, or just as the weather…
How to Set Up Remote Interviews, Focus Groups, and Digital Diaries As we’ve written about before, we’re exploring how we can be more inclusive and accessible in conducting research. Here are some initial things for any team to consider when attempting to make research more inclusive and accessible: It starts with us challenging ourselves to…
We should probably finish learning how to do community well in web 2.0 before we take all our bad habits with us to web3. In 2009, when we first started talking to consumers using online video diaries, the platforms were set up to function a lot like early Facebook – reverse chronological order, everyone able…
We’re done apologizing. Last week someone got in touch about attending the Qual360 conference in DC this spring and they were offering a discount, so I took a look. After scrolling through the program and the featured speakers, I was left wondering why on earth anyone would still be spending a thousand dollars to go…
Brief reflections on 2021, our plans for the future, and our faves from the cusp of 2022. Hi. 2021 ended for our little team with a grim flourish of grief, illness, and other forms of bad news, so we’ve all been simply trying to recover from that before we could even begin, really, to think…
We’re trying to create the conditions for a truly representative sample in market research – want to help? The tl;dr – we’re building a qualitative research recruitment panel that is designed to be inclusive and accessible from the ground up. If you or someone you know would like to join that panel, and be connected…
What marketers take for granted about how people make decisions; why it took the pandemic for researchers to adopt remote methods; the value of the beginner’s perspective Only a day late this time (and we’ve switched to Substack, because, well, we want the option of alt-text on images, and not every newsletter platform even offers…
As you probably already know, The Difference Engine conducts qualitative research, and we’ve spent some time over the past few months discussing industry trends & patterns and analyzing our own methods for running research. In a recent conversation, we concluded that there is not much information out there about how to run inclusive and accessible…
Today’s lesson: Emotional Leakage and Facial Recognition Software in Market Research There are lots of ways that facial recognition technology can be put to use; but one industry that has already demonstrated a lot of interest is the marketing business. Advertisers, market researchers have dabbled in facial recognition both for creative executions, and for understanding…
A note about a thing you don’t need to worry about and a technology you don’t need to use. I recently stumbled upon an article in Axios about how the $15 minimum wage is unpopular with swing voters. It suggested that President Biden might abandon including the proposal in stimulus because it would face too…