Boing Boing’s Avi Solomon interviews David Kelley on creativity, empathy, and design thinking for social good. Read the full Q&A here.

In “The Secret Phrase Top Innovators Use,” HBR delves into an essential question to the innovation process: “How Might We?”. Tim Brown contributes thoughts on its role in design challenges.

Sealy’s collaboration with IDEO resulted in more than just a prettier bed. Together, the two organizations spurred cross-functional collaboration across the mattress maker’s divisions. Read more about the effort in this Fortune story.

Mobile phones continue to evolve, but are reaching a plateau in terms of features and capabilities. Ten years from now, what will the evolution—or disruption—of the devices we keep in our pockets bring? IDEO’s Danny Stillion weighs in here.

Two IDEO projects have been selected as finalists in Fast Company‘s 2012 Innovation by Design Awards: Future Visions of Synthetic Biology in the concepts category, and the Faraday utility bike in the transportation category. Read more about the finalists on Co.Design.

IDEO worked with a coalition of national and state-based partners, led by the California HealthCare Foundation, to create a digital toolkit of human-centered design standards that can be used at scale to make it easier for Americans to enroll for health insurance online. FastCoDesign covers the work here.

Bill Moggridge, co-founder of IDEO and director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, died September 8th, 2012, following a battle with cancer. He was 69. An outspoken advocate for the value of design in everyday life, Bill pioneered interaction design and integrated human factors into the design of computer software and hardware.

Watch a Cooper-Hewitt video about Bill’s life and work here, and read articles in the New York Times here and here about Bill’s impact and influence.

Share your story of how Bill has changed our world at billmoggridge.com/celebration.

Dabble has been chosen to be IDEO Chicago’s next Startup-in-Residence beginning October 1, 2012. The year-old startup is an open marketplace that helps people discover, teach, or host one-time, affordable classes ranging from Creative Writing to Canning 101. Dabble currently offers classes in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Denver. Read more about Dabble here.

Sesame Workshop partnered with IDEO to design Elmo Calls, an app that helps families accomplish routine activities – such as potty training, getting dressed, and going to bed – with their 2- to 5-year-olds. Read FastCoDesign’s coverage of the app here.

In this 3-minute Harvard Business Review video, Tom Hulme talks about why launching a prototype into the real world makes projects faster, lower cost, and less risky.

The task of telling time is increasingly dominated by smartphones. So where does that leave watchmakers? IDEO design director Blaise Bertrand weighs in on the questions watch manufacturers should ask themselves when designing timepieces for a connected world.

The Huffington Post’s Rana Florida interviews IDEO’s CEO and president, Tim Brown, in her business advice column, Your Start-up Life. In this week’s column, titled “Design Your Thinking”, she talks with Tim about organizational culture, integrative thinking, design iteration, and more. Read the full interview here.

As part of the IDSA 2012 International Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, IDEO — along with several other Cambridge and Boston-based design firms — will be hosting “offsites” on Thursday, May 16, 2012 from 4:30 p.m. EST to 8:30 p.m. EST for all conference attendees and IDSA members. For more information, visit the IDSA.org conference site.

IDEO.org, the nonprofit organization that grew out of IDEO’s work in the social sector, is now in its second year of existence. The organization announced the first three projects of the 2012-2013 and its new class of fellows here.

Tom Hulme writes about agility, serendipity, and connected networks for Wired UK. His article, “Serendipity Favours the Connected,” appears in the September 2012 issue of the magazine. Read the article here.