Design makes the agenda at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Writer and critic Alice Rawsthorn leads two debates about design. IDEO’s Tim Brown joins both panels: “What is Good Design?” and “Design for Good.”

For more on Davos, track the Design Week blog.

To read Tim’s thoughts on design thinking, click here.

Tim Brown, CEO of the design firm IDEO, has been on the front lines of innovation for more than two decades.

In this interview, he distills lessons from a career spent helping scores of companies, nonprofits, and government agencies to become more innovative.

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This deep-dive exploration re-envisions an interface with an eye toward integrating new display and input technologies. For this two-week open collaboration, BugLabs and IDEO will conceptualize and create new interface paradigms, directions, and industrial design/housing-modification solutions.

Join the group brainstorm here.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers won the 2009 iF product design award for the ESPRIMO Mobile series professional notebooks, as well as for the ESPRIMO MA, a tablet PC design specifically for the health care sector. IDEO supported the internal design team as an external partner. Fujitsu Siemens Computers is Europe’s first computer manufacturer to define a consistent design language for all its product lines, according to PC Magazine.

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Other winners include:
- Iope Skin Filler: Intuitive packaging for an advanced skincare program
- Samsung LCD Monitors: Defining a competitive design language for LCD monitors
- My Passport: Differentiating an offering through a consistent design language

By Fred Dust and Ilya Prokopoff

When attempting to solve wicked problems, creative thinkers must design systems that influence people’s behavior on a mass scale. Every ecosystem is comprised of both micro and macro elements, and when any element gets out of whack, the rest of the system suffers. In too many cases, products and services are conceived to impact massive change, yet the offerings lack an awareness of their overall systems.

IDEO’s Ilya Prokopoff and Fred Dust talk about designing systems at scale to solve some of the world’s big problems.

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This spring Gary Hustwit, of Helvetica acclaim, will premier Objectified, a documentary film that focuses on the great design of everyday objects and the people who create them. Gizmodo is promoting a trailer for the film here.