Fred explores some of the shifts that he believes will change the way we behave and engage with the world. Read more about his thoughts on the ways art and design influence each other, and the role of heritage in innovation, here.

GreenBiz covers OpenIDEO’s Vibrant Cities challenge, calling it “a prototype for all that’s possible in creating a more sustainable world.” Read the post here.

Health startup Scanadu “wants to make sure the future of medicine remains a human-centered experience.” Read Fortune’s on the company’s vision for the health device and IDEO’s involvement here.

By Dana Cho and Beau Trincia

In a 5-page feature, IDEO partner Dana Cho and IDEO environments designer Beau Trincia show why tough economic times and emerging technologies are prompting consumers to change their buying behavior, and how smart retailers are responding with innovative in-store offerings.

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Ryan Jacoby gives insight into why it’s so hard to save, and how to keep money resolutions by visualizing goals. Read the full article here.

IDEO New York’s Ryan Jacoby is one of four experts asked to share predictions for design and innovation in 2012. Read more about his thoughts on what’s to come on the SmartPlanet site.

By Paul Bennett

Paul discusses the role of dignity in design is his Curiosity Chronicles column.

Singapore’s Straits Times, the most widely read newspaper in the country, publishes an interview with IDEO Chief Creative Officer Paul Bennett. Paul encourages the government to continue to take risks and co-create with constituents.

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The Atlantic interviews IDEO’s Steve Bishop about the ways sustainability influences innovation and design.

Core77 dives into IDEO’s work on the Wounded Warrior Home Project led by Clark Realty Capital. Together with Michael Graves of Michael Graves and Associates, IDEO designed homes for service members returning to active duty after being injured.

The AIGA’s Making the Case awards demonstrate the measurable success and impact of great design. HackFwd and OpenIDEO were two of nine winners selected from hundreds of great entries. Read the full case studies here.

Core77 takes an in-depth look at Bedsider.org, calling it a “smart and thorough, multi-faceted approach to behavior design, especially in a complex arena.” For more on IDEO’s work on Bedsider, click here.

By Tim Brown

Tim Brown discusses how design thinking can help tackle social issues by building empathy, discovering the unmet needs of the end user and more. Read the article here.

As part of a tour of Tech City, London’s East End technology hub, Prime Minister David Cameron stopped by IDEO London’s studio for a visit. The Prime Minister came to check out OpenIDEO, IDEO’s networked innovation platform, talk policy with Tom Hulme, and meet with several start-ups located in the White Bear Yard location. For more on the Prime Minister’s tech tour of East London, click here.

With the addition to the Tech City map, IDEO has been recognized as an integral part of the London start-up scene. Check out the influence page here and read more about East London’s Tech City here.

Health tech startup, and IDEO partner Scanadu, who recently presented at TEDMED, was featured in TechCrunch for their first product: the “Medical Tricorder.” The Tricorder, a mobile health-diagnostic tool built specifically with parents in mind, seeks to avoid unnecessary trips to the hospital due to deficient health information. You can view an interaction of Scanadu’s core vision here and learn more about Scanadu here.

As one of 13 Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, Diego will advise Harvard Business School MBA students on a part-time basis for the academic year.

Paul Bennett introduces his monthly Metropolis column with a post on curiosity and learning. He hopes to give readers “a window into what I am seeing, hearing, feeling and hopefully, how it inspires me and how I hope it can inspire you.”

OpenIDEO takes home a silver Lovie Award in the Social & Community category. The Lovie Awards recognize the unique and resonant nature of the European Internet community. For more on the awards competition and OpenIDEO’s big win, visit lovieawards.eu.

The front page of Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle captures David’s life through the lens of unlocking creativity, classic cars, and making an impact.

In “Innovation 101,” IDEO’s chairman and founder David Kelley talks about regaining creative confidence.

Tim Brown and Joi Ito lead a conversation at the MIT Media Lab around design’s relationship with current challenges and platforms.

The Oregon Manifest Creative Collaborations Bicycle Challenge has come to a close with the announcement of the People’s Choice winner. Voters chose Faraday, the bike designed and built by IDEO and Rock Lobster Cycles. Read more about the Faraday here. A journal of the bike’s build over the past eight months can be found on Core77.

Patrice Martin explains that IDEO.org‘s approach to design starts with learning about the lives, needs, and aspirations of the people who will eventually use the products being designed, instead of making assumptions. The article highlights the new products and services for in-home sanitation IDEO developed with Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) and Unilever for city dwellers in Ghana.

Fast Company highlights synthetic biology work by IDEO designers Will Carey and Adam Reineck. The article explains how they are working with scientists at UCSF on a concept that would use E. coli bacteria to form objects when exposed to light. To read more, visit FastCompany.com.

By James Moed

James Moed’s “Retail Banks Turning to Design,” is included in the Sept.-Oct. issue of Banking Today, a publication of the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers. In this three-page spread, James writes about rethinking retail banking from the customers’ point of view and how international banks are recognizing good design as a critical element to their retail banking products and services.

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As part of its “Brightest Ideas” issue, Time Out Chicago’s Jake Malooley visits IDEO’s West Loop location to learn about how we collaborated on the future of pharmacy with Walgreens, State Farm’s Next Door learning lab and more. Read the full story here.

The Oregon Manifest Bicycle Challenge, a bicycle design competition which challenged the nation’s top bike builders, wrapped up this past weekend in Portland, Oregon. Reviews of IDEO’s bicycle, the Faraday, created with Rock Lobster cycles can be found on CNET and BikePortland.org, along with a journal of its build over the past eight months on Core77.

Read more about the Faraday here and cast your vote at OregonManifest.com/collaborations.

IDEO.org announced its initial projects and fellowship class. Read more about what IDEO.org will be working on and the team members on Design Observer, Core77, Public Interest Design, and MediaBistro’s Unbeige.

Tim Brown, Fred Dust, and David Kelley are part of Fast Company‘s annual Masters of Design issue. Check out these three links to see where they fit in the 2011 edition.

IDEO’s Brendan Boyle and Joe Wilcox talk about the importance of play, and how to build a culture that encourages prototyping and experimentation.

Tim is interviewed for the Fixes series, which asks CEOs, academics, and other creative thinkers for one idea that might help the economy. Tim talks about apprenticeship and the way it helps facilitate tacit learning. Hear the interview and read the transcript here.

Design for Change, a design based school competition which started with the Design for Giving contest in 2009, has won an INDEX award in the work category. Design for Change is the largest global movement designed to give children the opportunity to put their ideas into action.

IDEO also had several INDEX finalists including Lars Hinrichs’ HackFwd, OpenIDEO and AskNature.org. Read more about the 2011 awards here.

IDEO communications designer Elle Luna speaks at The Designer Fund’s Designer Fair about the humanity of brands. To read more about the talk, visit FastCompany.com.

An expat living in Singapore writes about his experience at the Ministry of Manpower’s Employment Pass Services Center, which IDEO helped redesign.

By Heather Emerson and Ashlea Powell

In a 5-page feature, IDEO designers Heather Emerson and Ashlea Powell show why service providers who recognize our growing desire to navigate our own experiences are on their way to greater customer satisfaction.

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United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announces that the U.S. State Department will be working with the American Refugee Committee (ARC) and IDEO on the “Neighbors” campaign to raise awareness and funds for the relief effort in Somalia. A video and transcript of the speech are available here.

To read more about IDEO’s prior work with the American Refugee Committee read here.

Pascal Soboll talks about how banks can differentiate themselves through innovation. In German language in Geldinstitute in June 2011.

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U.S. news show First Business News covers the IDEO Chicago office’s LEED updates. Watch the segment here.

Core77 takes a look at the IDEO Labs post on the exquisite corpse experiment. See the post here, and go to Labs to see what happens when you combine Flickr tags, RSVP responses, and the elements of a never-ending story.

Page Kreativmagazin talks about IDEO’s work with the Spanish bank BBVA and their ATM interface in the New York Museum of Modern Art’s Talk to Me exhibit. In German language.

The Huffington Post covers IDEO’s work with several U.S. federal agencies who have “embarked on a quest to streamline and innovate.”

Global Entrepreneur magazine talks with IDEO Shanghai about their work for Midea, transforming their understanding of innovation and how design can truly change the lives of Chinese people. For the English-language version, click here.

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OpenIDEO — IDEO’s networked innovation platform — was awarded the winner of the Service Design category in Core77’s first ever awards program. IDEO’s work for Bedsider took the win for strategy/research while HackFwd and Steelcase node were also awarded both runner up and professional notable awards.

For more on the awards, read here.

IDEO was awarded 12 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEAs) by the IDSA and Fast Company, with winning designs ranging from the future of self-service banking to designing homes for wounded veterans.

Gold

• Bedsider for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy (Service Design)
• Long-Haul Travel Experience for Air New Zealand (Research)

Silver

• The Design for Giving Contest for Riverside School (Service Design)
• Long-Haul Travel Experience for Air New Zealand (Transportation)
• Redefining Self-Service Banking for BBVA Group (Commercial & Industrial Products)
• node Chair for Steelcase (Office & Productivity)
• ’Wounded Warriors’ for Clark Realty (Research)

Bronze

• Balloonimals iPhone app (Interactive Product Experiences)
• Bedsider for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy (Research)
• Bedsider for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy (Design Strategy)
• Long-Haul Travel Experience for Air New Zealand (Interiors)
• media:scape for Steelcase (Office & Productivity)

For more on the winners, read here.

China DESIGN interviews IDEO Shanghai Design Director Tony Wong and discusses the future of good design in China. For the English-language version, click here.

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Sandy Speicher talks about human-centered design and the relevance of new concepts on NPR’s Talk of the Nation show, “From Muses to Music: Where Ideas Come From.”

Fred Dust, David Kelley, and Sandy Speicher spoke as part of this year’s Aspen Ideas Festival, held June 27-July 4 in Aspen, Colorado.

Fred and David shared the stage for “How Is Design Inspiring New Directions in Education and Our Society?,” and Sandy spoke on a panel titled, “How Do We Design the Learning Environments of the Future?”

IDEO’s Boston studio hosted a TEDx Boston Adventure, part of a TEDx series that combines the Boston region and the TED mission. The day-long workshop that centered around the theme, “What are innovative ways to harness & celebrate the delights of local culture?” Core77 writes about the experience here.

Where do the advertising world and IDEO intersect? Creativity Unbound’s Edward Boches describes places where agencies could gain inspiration from the process and methods of design.

How can large companies hold on to their core businesses while capturing growth opportunities? IDEO’s Tom Hulme talks to Forbes about the ways larger organizations can apply start-up strategies.

Metropolis features IDEO’s work in the public sector as the cover story of its June 2011 issue.

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China Entrepreneur magazine accompanies Paul Bennett, IDEO’s Global Chief Creative Director, on an innovation trip in Shanghai, and experiences the creative force in IDEO and reflects on the lost cultural consciousness in China. For the English-language version, click here.

《中国企业家》杂志跟随IDEO全球首席创意官Paul Bennett踏上在上海的创意体验之旅，感受着一个创新组织的强大气场和身为中国人遗失的文化自觉。

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Huffington Post writes on the benefits of bringing design thinking into the classroom. One place to start: the Design Thinking for Educators toolkit, a resource for teachers that adapts the process and methods of design specifically for the context of education.

Tom Hulme, a design director in IDEO London, took the 55th spot on a list of the UK’s top 100 “digital power brokers from innovators to investors.”

OpenIDEO, IDEO’s open innovation platform, and Grover’s Number Special, a Sesame Street iPhone app designed in collaboration with IDEO, both won Webby Awards in the Community and Games-Tablet & All Other categories, respectively.

IDEO’s Ilya Prokopoff contributes his thoughts to the World Economic Forum’s Forumblog.org about his time at WEF Latin America. The event was held April 27-29 in Rio de Janeiro. Read his posts here, here, and here.

In “Meta Design” Designaré talks to Tim about working with the government, sustaining an innovative culture, and leadership lessons learned.

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Condé Nast Traveler covers Air New Zealand’s economy-class makeover and IDEO’s involvement in the overhaul. “We realized that we could be the first airline to break through the barrier,” says Air New Zealand’s Norm Thompson.

IDEO’s Boston studio was filmed as a part of the Boston ABC affiliate WCVB’s Chronicle news show. The segment was titled, “Why We Buy,” and explored what motivates consumers to spend. IDEO talks about the retail experience and gives viewers a look at parts of the design process in this segment.

Pascal Soboll is interviewed about IDEO’s work with BBVA.

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David is interviewed about leadership and the role of empathy in developing people. He talks about the need for creative confidence – the belief in one’s own creative capabilities – and how a design approach can help to hone this skill.

Cool Tools calls the Method Cards “a great resource for people interested in finding new ways of thinking and brainstorming solutions.”

By Kara Johnson

IDEO’s Kara Johnson writes an article on punk manufacturing, which she defines as “modern craft. It’s the idea that people want, to some extent, to create the stuff they buy or use, even if it is mass-produced.” She believes that “as punk manufacturing begins to gain influence, it will help designers and the people they work with set a new standard for manufacturing and a new type of market.”

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The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy’s Larry Swiader and IDEO’s Jenn Maer spoke about their work on the Bedsider birth control method at SXSW on a panel titled, “Rebranding Birth Control: Behavior Change Through Design.” Read the Examiner’s coverage here.

The iO-Flex surgical system, design by IDEO with Baxano Inc. won a gold MDEA award in the surgical equipment, instruments and supplies category. More on the award here.

Fixes blogger Tina Rosenberg writes an editorial about crowdsourcing. Mainly interested in “what crowdsourcing can do to help civilians contribute to social change in a way that is both useful and emotionally satisfying,” she references OpenIDEO and a number of challenges that have run on the open innovation platform.

Haiyan Zhang from IDEO’s London office mapped radiation levels from geiger counter readings across Japan, pulled from Pachube, a data infrastructure platform. Core77 posts on Haiyan’s work. 

BBVA’s ATM won an award in the “product interface” category of the iF Communication Design Awards 2011.

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By David Aycan and Arvind Gupta

David and Arvind cover eight concepts that can help cultivate a business design mindset. They are: look beyond your industry; apply rich constraints; use tangible provocations; use letters and numbers; speak to your crowd; deliver stories, not data; aim, ideate, repeat; and let go of “right.”

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In the fall of 2011, IDEO is announcing a new nonprofit organization, IDEO.org. It’s aimed at addressing poverty and spreading human-centered design through the social sector. Fortune, Core77, Fast Company’s Co. Design, MediaBistro’s Unbeige, Skoll Foundation, and Dexigner talk about the news.

IDEO’s Fred Dust is interviewed by the Partnership for Public Service’s Tom Fox on how federal agencies can overcome barriers to innovation. He talks about the need for long-term, sustainable innovation cultures and the role of storytelling in motivating workplaces.

Sandy Speicher writes about what the school day of the future could look like on KQED’s MindShift education blog. Envisioning a day that’s unpredictable, inconsistent, and wildly relevant for learners, their engagement, and their development, she argues that above all, it will be designed. Read the post here.

In an interview with Metropolis’ Susan Szenasy, Jane Fulton Suri looks deeper into how patterns in nature and living systems can inform us and inspire us to create more elegant solutions. She talks about the changes a nature-inspired approach might bring about and how human factors might be redefined through a better understanding of the natural world.

IDEO is included in Fast Company’s Top Ten in Design list “for opening its own innovation processes to the world.”

Adam Vollmer and Judy Lee are the hosts of Design Squad Nation, a 10-part series of TV shows and accompanying online video blogs. They partner with kids around the world to make their dreams come true through engineering. You can also catch the shows online at the Design Squad Nation site, or check your local PBS television listing.

A team from IDEO’s Palo Alto office has teamed up with craft bike builder Paul Sadoff of Rock Lobster to design the ultimate urban utility bike. Learn more about the Oregon Manifest challenge here, and follow the team’s progress over the next eight months on the Core77 diary.

IDEO fellow Bob Sutton writes about David Kelley’s philosophy on love and money. In light of David’s recent 60th birthday, Bob talks about David’s thoughts on the balance that’s required to sustain people’s talents and motivations while growing a business. Read the post here.

Ryan Jacoby’s recent NYU-Poly talk, “Leading Innovation,” includes a section about the seven sins of innovation. Helen Walters covered the ways companies can avoid falling victim to their own creative processes.
Watch a video of the presentation here.

IDEO’s work with the Partnership for Public Service is included in “The Federal Coach” Washington Post column. Tom Fox, director of the Center for Government Leadership at the The Partnership for Public Service, describes how government agencies and offices can spur innovation and deliver better results. He links to the report the Partnership for Public Service co-authored with IDEO titled, “Innovation in Government.” Download the report here.

IDEO’s Tim Brown spoke on The Daily Beast’s roundtable with Paul Saffo and John Kao about what might drive innovation in the coming 10 years. Tim talked about the impact synthetic biology and biotechnology will have on the way we think and network, and the shift that’s occurring from a physics-based way of thinking to a biology-based approach.
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IDEO has partnered with General Assembly, a new community and education space built around tech and design, to offer courses for early-stage companies. Read more about General Assembly and IDEO’s involvement in the new concept on New York Times Bits Blog, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and the San Francisco Chronicle. 

Nathan Waterhouse spoke about the open innovation platform at CompostModern, an AIGA event that explores “fertile ground for designing a sustainable future. Treehugger, CNET, and Core77 wrote about their takes on the session.

The most widely read Spanish newspaper takes a look at IDEO’s methods and people. Read the full article, in Spanish, here.

Challenge Magazine, a publication written for Singapore’s public sector employees, profiles design thinking and talks about IDEO’s work. The feature is followed up by an interview with Tim Brown that covers designing for the less fortunate and the Singapore Ministry of Manpower’s move to embrace design thinking: Tim talks about the process: “I hope what Singapore does is to treat [design thinking] as an investment in the future and in innovation and have that similar commitment to adaptation and learning as the journey unfolds.”

After wrapping up a challenge that asked, “What global challenge do you think innovation leaders should work to solve right now?” on OpenIDEO, an open innovation platform, IDEO’s Nathan Waterhouse presented the findings to the i20, a group of global innovation leaders convened at the White House. The findings from the challenge helped to identify priorities and directions at the event that serves as a forum for discussion of innovation on a global scale.

Editor Peter Rowan writes about a newly created Google Doc that crowdsources tools for tech startups. It’s bucketed out by strategy and pricing, user experience, brand, recruiting, and funding. Read the post here and add your own resources in the editable Google doc here.

In his Designing Media blog, Bill Moggridge considers why we consume media with Neil Stevenson. Bill, the director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, has launched a blog around the release of his latest book Designing Media. Read the post here.

InformationWeek’s J. Nicholas Hoover talks with Social Security CIO Frank Baitman about the agency’s IT operations and his plans to push their infrastructure into the 21st century. Baitman says, “We asked IDEO to help think through what we needed to do to make the online experience something that people would choose for retirement.”

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Two dozen business leaders, including IDEO’s Tim Brown, were asked which projects they’ll take on in 2011. Tim targets strategic resilience, and how we might provide ourselves with appropriate options for the future in the face of growing unpredictability.
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The LifePort Kidney Transporter from Organ Recovery Systems was recognized in the “Solution to a Consumer Product” category of the IDSA-sponsored awards. The LifePort Kidney Transporter improves kidney preservation, evaluation and transport prior to transplantation. Kidneys transported in the LifePort device have been shown to be 48 percent less likely to fail within the first year after the transplant than those preserved by the traditional icebox method.

A group of designers from IDEO’s Boston office brought to life the c60 music player concept from Martin Bone and Kara Johnson’s book, I Miss My Pencil. Check out photos of the process and a behind-the-scenes video on Core77. An in-depth explanation of the design process can be found on the I Miss My Pencil website.

Design’s role in the world has changed, and so has the way students learn the craft and process. Monocle takes a look at four design schools around the world, including Stanford’s d.school, where he speaks with David Kelley, IDEO co-founder and founder of the d.school. The full article is available in the December print edition under a subscription at the Monocle site.

Design Taxi interviewed Tim Brown during a trip to Singapore. Read the post for more on the necessity of innovation in businesses and applying design to biology.

Der Einfachheit halber

Helmut Martin-Jung von der Süddeutschen Zeitung beschreibt am Beispiel des von IDEO entwickelten BBVA Bankautomaten, wie Firmen herausfinden können, was ihre Kunden wirklich wollen.

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A case study on The Tube, IDEO’s internal collaboration system, is featured. IDEO’s learnings, including what inspires people to contribute, what success looks like, and the benefits of a truly utilized knowledge-sharing platform are covered. Read the full story here.

Reporter Ryan Flinn takes a look IDEO’s work past and present. Along with projects from a variety of industries, Ryan looks at the role of trends and patterns and how they inform some of our thinking.

In this article about the role of open innovation, Tom Hulme discusses the need for evolution in companies of all sizes: “The reason entrepreneurs are effective is they’re forced to learn quickly and bootstrap their businesses; ironically larger companies are being forced to do that at the moment as well.” The inspiration and design principles behind OpenIDEO are discussed, along with the need for true transparency.

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“How Technology is Changing Design,” a talk presented by IDEO’s Tom Hulme, was presented to a full house at the IDEO London studio last week for Internet Week. Read audience members’ reactions here and here.

IDEO’s Tim Brown sits down with Today to discuss innovation in Singapore, design thinking, and what it takes to cultivate the methods associated with design. “You don’t have to be a designer or artist,” Tim said. “You just have to learn how different methods and things can make life more fulfilling. It takes effort. You start with the skill of looking – look beyond the surface and understand how things can be improved.”
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