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How the Design of Mobile Apps Can Promote Healthier Behavior
Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal’s Venture Capital Dispatch blog features David Webster and his 2013 Burrill Digital Health Meeting presentation on healthy behavior and the design of mobile apps.
Tim Brown on Davos 2013
IDEO’s CEO and president Tim Brown reflects on his time at the 2013 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in this week’s LinkedIn post.
Sitegeist on GigaOm
GigaOm
GigaOm on how the Sunlight Foundation and IDEO teamed up to create Sitegeist, an app that uses location-based census data to help you understand more about where you are.
Arvind Gupta on Adaptive Innovation
Rotman Magazine
In Adaptive Innovation: Launch, Learn, Repeat, Arvind Gupta explains how teams can iterate an offering, product, or business model in sync with evolving market needs and stay ahead of the competition. (View the full Winter 2013 issue of Rotman Magazine here.)
Innovating Ideas and 10 Conversations That Changed Our World
Fast Company
Fast Company talks to IDEO’s Albert Lee about innovating ideas. IDEO’s Dennis Boyle also talks to FastCo about the Palm V in 10 Conversations That Changed Our World.
NYC Department of Education Gap App Launched
NYC Department of Education
Mayor Mike Bloomberg launches The Gap App Challenge, designed by IDEO. The New York City Department of Education approached IDEO to identify and frame a challenge for software developers to submit apps that enhance teaching and learning middle school math. Learn more about the project on the NYC government’s site and watch video coverage of the press conference.
IDEO Featured on 60 Minutes
CBS News
Charlie Rose visits IDEO and interviews co-founder David Kelley in this segment of 60 Minutes. Rose also discusses the future of design thinking with Tim Brown and delves deeper into human-centered design with David in his home. 60 Minutes also checked in with the IDEO Toy Lab. View all of the footage from 60 Minutes’ time at IDEO here.
An Exercise in Good Taste: The WSJ’s Roundup of Sleek Fitness Machines for the Home
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal spotlights a high-end home fitness machine roundup which leads with the Allegro 2 Pilates reformer, designed by IDEO.
Changi General Hospital: Delivering Better Quality Care
Singapore's Business Times
The Business Times profiles IDEO Singapore’s work with Changi General Hospital. As part of the feature, one doctor says that the redesigned Orthopaedic Clinic, which IDEO focused on, “has enabled the same number of nurses to serve a larger pool of doctors” and allowed for quicker clearing of queues in the space. Read more about Changi General Hospital’s revamped healthcare delivery system on the Business Times site.
Synthetic Biology on Australian Public Radio
Australia's ABC Radio National
IDEO’s Will Carey leads off a discussion about synthetic biology on the station’s By Design show. He discusses the field of synthetic biology, and how it can be used as a material and perspective on design. Listen here.
Introducing: Will Work For
IDEO + Collaborative Fund
Will Work For is a design provocation created by the Collaborative Fund and IDEO to spark conversations about the future of work. Will Work For unveils an alternate present and the inevitable future: communities that create and support creation.
Harvard Business Review: David and Tom Kelley on Creative Confidence
Harvard Business Review
Creative Confidence is the ability to come up with breakthrough ideas, combined with the courage to act. Tom and David Kelley expand on the concept of Creative Confidence in the latest issue of the Harvard Business Review magazine. Read ‘Reclaim Your Creative Confidence’.
Marketplace: Digital Design + Health Insurance
Marketplace
Marketplace interviews Christian Palino about how IDEO’s work on the Consumer Health Insurance Enrollment Experience can help people make sense of health care exchanges under the Affordable Care Act. Listen to the piece here.
Bloomberg Tech on IDEO.org’s Sanitation Hackathon
Bloomberg
Bloomberg‘s Tech Blog reporter Mark Milan shares his experience of IDEO.org’s Sanitation Hackathon and the challenge of solving open defecation issues in Ghana. Read Bloomberg‘s Tech Blog post here.
IDEO’s Tom Hulme Named One of London’s 1000 Most Influential People of 2012
The London Evening Standard listed IDEO’s Tom Hulme as one of London’s 1000 most influential people of 2012. Read more about the 1000 here.