Abstract
The services and products are provided to the community through crowdsourcing platforms where crowds are of different backgrounds, nationalities, languages, religions, and education levels. These differences affect the results of services and products that are developed using crowdsource platforms. This study presents the way of integration of cultural factors into the design features of crowdsource product designing. The research presents the activities of crowdsource product designing, and the cultural factors to derive the theoretical foundation for formulating the cultural factors for crowdsource product designing. Also, the study derives methods that are used for integrating the cultural factors into crowdsourcing product design platforms. Also, it illustrates the design of the user interface of crowdsourcing product design platforms taking cultural factors into consideration. The research is validated by prototyping and conducting test cases. Finally, it presents a discussion of the research results and explains the effect of cultural factors on crowdsource product designing. Thus confirms the necessity of designing platform activities integrating the cultural factors in order to satisfy the crowdsource product design users' needs.