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Nine Tips for Planning User Research in Foreign Countries

Zalando Engineering

Zalando is active in 15 European markets. In addition to an array of other user testing activities, in 2016 we performed field research in France, UK, Italy, Switzerland and Germany to get a better understanding of the differences in consumer behavior and the local needs of our customers. We have experimented with different set-ups on how to conduct local interviews and after successfully organising 77 of them, we have the following advice to offer about planning field research in different coun

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Recap of Hadoop News for March 2017

ProjectPro

News on Hadoop-March 2017 The cloud is disrupting Hadoop. Zdnet.com, March 6, 2017 Forrester estimates that organizations will spend $800 million in hadoop and its related services in 2017. The major force exerting pressure on Hadoop is cloud.With firms no longer showing interest in dangling with hadoop’s on-premise complexity, organizations are more keen on shifting their hadoop stacks to the public cloud.This implies that the revenue of hadoop vendors will see a drastic shift from on-pre

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Crafting a Digital Fashion Vocabulary

Zalando Engineering

Companies involved in the business of fashion like Zalando have shifting priorities, and technology has become more important than ever. Technology at its heart is incredibly granular – highly detailed, and composed of many complex parts. This description can also be applied to fashion: Trends, seasons, fabrics, textures – the entire industry is astonishing in its scope and depth.