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The Mobike Experience: a Deep Dive into the new IoT App Sweeping Beijing
Distances in Beijing are awkward, irregular beasts. The city blocks, for one thing, are ginormous, clocking in at about 10 hectares a pop. Can’t really picture the size of a hectare? Yeah, me neither....
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a stroll through china’s most-used desktop login forms
I presume you’ve used a login form before (no? Hail, and welcome to Earth. We have tacos). And I presume you’re familiar with the basics: you speak “friend” and enter. But China’s login processes,...
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Chinese New Year by the Numbers: Wechat + Spring Festival Infographic 2016
The numbers are counted, the 汤圆 are eaten, and Spring Festival 2016 is officially wrapped. WeChat released an overview of Chinese New Years user stats, and Chinese branding blog Pingwest (who recently...
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Mitigating Mistrust in Chinese eCommerce: Visual Indicators of...
Hoo! You remember back in 2005 when this was true? “The research findings show that consumer privacy protection, security control measurements, brand and size of the companies are most important...
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Xian Yu App –闲鱼 – China’s Emerging Second-Hand Market
It wasn’t long ago that second-hand was a no-go zone for retail in China. There’s no glory in a gently-used trampoline, and a light film of shame still taints second-hand purchases. But that, like...
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UI vs. Loneliness: Barrage Video (弹幕) and China’s “Empty Nest Youth”
Ideas are mysterious things. Sometimes the worst ones smell like solid gold, sometimes the profit-driving powerhouses masquerade as giant turds. Telling the difference, it seems, takes a certain...
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Chinese User Interface Trends in 2015: Onboarding with Overlays and Arrows
We like to think that every decision made by giant conglomerates is backed by years of research and considered decision-making, but if you’ve ever gotten close to a multi-national company, you’ll know...
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Chinese App Icons: Senior Designers Share Their Thinking
Man, you rarely see stuff like this on the Chinese net: interesting dive into design thinking as Chinese branding blog Pingwest interviews the designers of three major Chinese character-based app...
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Examining Chinese UI for the Travel Industry: What’s Different?
Dorking around on travel sites is my weird little self-soothing, time-wasting extravagance. I don’t know what’s so exciting about plane ticket listings, I just like them. I like them in the way I like...
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Eight Conclusions from Tencent’s Mobile User Behavior Report
Hey nerd faces, Tencent’s game design and creative team TGideas just released a cool light-app based report outlining eight conclusions from mobile behavior data aggregation and testing. I’m gonna...
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