Brynn Evans is a Ph.D. student, digital anthropologist, and user research consultant. She has studied how people think, act, and behave in social contexts for 10 years, both as a psychologist and an ethnographer. Her dissertation work is on the role of social interactions during search (so-called “social search”), and how to design online systems that support collaborative question-answering. As a consultant, she’s been involved with the betacup initiative, whose goal is to redesign the reusable coffee mug to better align with people’s coffee drinking practices. She has also worked on projects as diverse as designing a “social shirt” to understanding the how web developers’ motivations and priorities influence their choice of software development tools.

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