Design ‘Shaping the Post-Crisis World’ in Davos, with IDEO’s Tim Brown

articles / Posted: January 29, 2009

Design ‘Shaping the Post-Crisis World’ in Davos, with IDEO’s Tim Brown

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.

Lessons from Innovation’s Front Lines

articles / Posted: January 21, 2009

Lessons from Innovation’s Front Lines

The McKinsey Quarterly

— Lenny Mendonca and Hayagreeva Rao

Tim Brown, IDEO's CEO, distills the lessons of his career with McKinsey’s Lenny Mendonca and Stanford professor Hayagreeva Rao.

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Join BugLabs & IDEO’s Open Project

articles / Posted: January 21, 2009

Join BugLabs & IDEO’s Open Project

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.

iF Awards 2009

awards / Posted: January 12, 2009

iF Awards 2009

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.

Designing Systems at Scale

articles / Posted: January 5, 2009

Designing Systems at Scale

Rotman Magazine

— 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. 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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Watch Designers Speak in Gary Hustwit’s Latest Documentary Objectified

events / Posted: January 5, 2009

Watch Designers Speak in Gary Hustwit’s Latest Documentary Objectified

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.