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A New Model for Green Design
BusinessWeek
A Kyoto Treaty for design: Valerie Casey and The Designers Accord are featured in this BusinessWeek piece.
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Function Dysfunction
The New York Times
Allison Arieff kicks off the first in a series of monthly opinion pieces in The New York Times with “Function Dysfunction,” with a nod to The Designers Accord.
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Creating an Entrepreneurial Culture of Optimism
ABC News
“Companies that innovate well often share in common a culture of optimism. This type of culture exemplifies a company’s belief that its employees are extremely capable and serves as fertile breeding ground for extraordinary innovation and entrepreneurial spirit.”
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How A Design Thinking Approach Can Help Librarians
Designing Better Libraries
These bibliophiles are leading the way. Learn about how design thinking can be used to improve the library experience.
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10 Best Books on Innovation to Get You through the Recession
BusinessWeek
Bruce Nussbaum includes Everyday Engineering by IDEO’s Andrew Burroughs in his “10 Best Books on Innovation to Get You through the Recession” list.
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Innovate or Else: 6 Thinkers’ Ideas
U.S. News & World Report
Tim Brown weighs in on how innovation can be encouraged at the national level in U.S. News & World Report.
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Innovation, Growth, and Getting to Where You Want to Go
DMI
“Our experience creating successful innovations at IDEO tells us again and again that the best efforts come from organizations that solve for human desirability.”
Design thinking is a crucial business asset—one that can, indeed, move a company forward and improve the bottom line. To optimize this impact, Ryan Jacoby and Diego Rodriguez advise thoughtfully structuring the innovation process. They stress working on projects that improve people’s lives, and they present a “ways to grow” model that helps managers direct and assess innovation efforts.
2007 Yearbook of Design Excellence
Innovation
Included in the IDSA’s 2007 compendium of IDEA award-winning designs are six bylined case studies by IDEO designers and writers, featuring work for Bank of America, Eclipse Aviation, Lifeport, and others.
Return of the Easy Rider
BusinessWeek
The story of how IDEO and Shimano created an opportunity for the entire bike industry with the Coasting experience platform.
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Davos Summers in Dalian, China
BusinessWeek
“This melting pot of company executives (over 1,700 from more than 90 countries) spent three days discussing all aspects of business and the economy… .”
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Play It Again, Nokia. For the 3rd Time.
The New York Times
IDEO’s human factors and interaction design work on the Nokia N-Gage multiplayer gaming service is highlighted in this New York Times Technology feature.
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Leadership and Innovation in a Networked World
innovations
“At its best, innovation is more than a team sport - it is a networked, collaborative adventure.”
The Eclipse: Safety by Design
BusinessWeek
An in-depth look at the collaboration between IDEO and Eclipse Aviation that yielded a best-selling and award-winning high-performance jet.
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Product Experience
IDEO human factors specialist Katja Battarbee contributed to Product Experience in Chapter 19, Co-experience: Product Experience as Social Interaction (co-written with Ilpo Koskinen).
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Question Everything
HOW Magazine
A friendly Q&A with IDEO’s Jane Fulton Suri, author of Thoughtless Acts, Download the PDF