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IDEO's Tom Kelley recently spoke at Bilbao’s Global Business Conference in Spain and was interviewed by two major Spanish publication, El País and El Correo. El País is the most widely circulated newspaper in Spain.
“Nunca hay que malgastar una buena crisis,” El Correo (Read the full article in Spanish here.) “Con China sólo se puede competir con algo novedoso,” El País (Read the full article in Spanish here.)

By Tim Brown and Jocelyn Wyatt
Designers have traditionally focused on enhancing the look and functionality of products. Recently, they have begun using design tools to tackle more complex problems, such as finding ways to provide low-cost healthcare throughout the world. Businesses were first to embrace this new approach—called design thinking—now nonprofits are beginning to adopt it too. Read Tim and Jocelyn’s article here.
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November 17-18, 2009

IDEO's John Rehm will speak at the Design Thinking Symposium in Singapore, part of the Singapore Design Festival. His talk, “Design Thinking to Transform Your Organization,” will take place on November 18.

The USGBC, American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), and The Network of the Hospitality Industry (NEWH) together announced the winner of the first ever Sustainable Suite Design Competition. The competition showcased the best hospitality design strategies that boast environmental responsibility while enhancing the guest experience. Out of 65 professional design entries, IDEO and WATG took the top prize for their suite, Haptik. For more information, click here.

IDEO’s intranet, The Tube, has been honored with an Intranet Innovation Award. The IIAs are global awards that celebrate new ideas and innovative approaches to the enhancement and delivery of intranets. The goal is to find these ideas (whether large or small), and to share them with the wider community. Gold Awards are given across four different categories, each focusing on a specific aspect of intranets. Platinum Award winners are then chosen to recognize the most extraordinary entries for the year. To read more about the awards, click here.

November 14, 2009

IDEO's Bill Moggridge will present his book and his experience in interaction design at User Friendly 2009 in Shanghai, China.

In the December issue of WIRED UK, Ben Hammersley writes about how IDEO approaches design thinking as a practical way to solve problems. Read the full article here. To read what editor-in-chief David Rowan said about IDEO, click here.

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October 30 – November 3, 2009

IDEO’s "The Future Present" exhibition is at Midtown in Tokyo this week. The effort is part of Tokyo Design Week.

“The Future Present” is a participatory space that invites visitors into IDEO’s design process, displaying experimentation, collaboration, evolution, and actionability.

In “Social Software: The Other ‘Design for Social Impact,’” Gentry Underwood discusses the use of social software tools, from wikis to Facebook, in the corporate environment. Read the article on Core77 here.