Admittedly, it was the name of a cafe on Changsheng Road in Hengyang, Hunan, which first caught my attention.
But I have returned to Black Tide (黑潮) several times due to its decent inexpensive iced milk tea and the friendly woman who has been working there anytime I have stopped by.
When there, I have seen a mostly younger crowd. Sometimes they are using a piece of modern technology, whether a laptop ...
or, more commonly, a mobile phone, useful for taking advantage of Black Tide's free Wi-Fi.
And sometimes they are writing messages on colored paper to publicly post there.
Free Wi-Fi, mobile devices, and colored notes with customers' messages can be found in many other cafes in China. This mix reminds me of issues and questions I earlier discussed regarding the value of looking at people's offline world when conducting user research for online services.
And it shows, like a reading protest in Thailand (related AP report), how paper can still matter in a high tech world.
But I have returned to Black Tide (黑潮) several times due to its decent inexpensive iced milk tea and the friendly woman who has been working there anytime I have stopped by.
When there, I have seen a mostly younger crowd. Sometimes they are using a piece of modern technology, whether a laptop ...
or, more commonly, a mobile phone, useful for taking advantage of Black Tide's free Wi-Fi.
And sometimes they are writing messages on colored paper to publicly post there.
Free Wi-Fi, mobile devices, and colored notes with customers' messages can be found in many other cafes in China. This mix reminds me of issues and questions I earlier discussed regarding the value of looking at people's offline world when conducting user research for online services.
And it shows, like a reading protest in Thailand (related AP report), how paper can still matter in a high tech world.
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