An interesting summary of some of the cross-cultural considerations for design.
“The researchers differentiated between three different cultures by rating them across four cultural dimensions: “uncertainty avoidance” (the amount of effort someone expends to maintain predictability and minimize risk), “individualism vs. collectivism” (the degree to which someone focuses on the welfare of the group at the expense of the individual), “context” (the amount of “background information” needed to feel confident that a message is fully understood and “time perception” (“monochronic” people prefer to perform one task at a time, while “polychronics” are multitaskers who focus more on relationships than sticking to a hard and fast to-do list).”
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