Popular Science checks in with IDEO’s Christian Palino about the design of Enroll UX 2014, a consumer healthcare enrollment experience developed in collaboration with the California HealthCare Foundation and a coalition of national and state partners. Read more about the project here.

Nathan Waterhouse kicked off the latest OpenIDEO challenge at Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. The challenge, which is focused on the problem of discarded electronics, is being done in partnership with leading Brazilian bank Itaú Unibanco, the US State Department and the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Paul Bennett, IDEO’s Chief Creative Officer, writes for the “From the Desk of” column for Singapore’s The Business Times, the country’s most influential business paper, about why Singapore is the perfect place to prototype ideas. Paul says that “trying is the new talking,” describing why Singapore lends itself to a learn-by-doing approach.

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How might businesses that found success in one area find new outlets for future growth? Colin believes that the start-ups of today and the skunkworks of the 1970s suggest ways larger organizations can pursue growth. Read the full article on HBR.com.

IDEO is ranked No. 13 on the places MBAs most want to work in the U.S., according to Universum, an independent polling company. The annual study surveys 60,000 business school students. See the list on CNNMoney.com.

MD+DI, a magazine for the medical device and diagnostic industry, named Stacey Chang to its “40 Under 40” list for 2012.