The Latest

On September 8, Tim Brown will speak at Cumulus, a conference hosted by The International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media. The conference is being produced in combination with Shanghai World EXPO2010 and Shanghai Biennale. It will explore where and how young generation of designers can, through their talents and responsibility, improve our environment and life in a creative way.
To learn more about the speakers, click here.

Communication design work for Bedsider and HCD Toolkit is currently on display at the Pasadena Museum of California Art's Design Biennial. The exhibit is on until October 31, 2010.
Learn more about The Design Biennial here.

IDEO's Axel Unger will speak at "Innovation in Healthcare Delivery," a one-day event held at London Business School. He will discuss the role of design in service innovation.
Download a PDF about the event here.

Gentry Underwood's talk, "Beyond Ethnography: How the design of social software obscures observation and intervention," will take place on July 8 from 4:00-5:00pm at PARC Forum in Palo Alto, CA.
Learn more about the event here.

On June 22, IDEO’s Doug Solomon will facilitate a session titled “Innovation Laboratory on Rebuilding Trust” at The New York Forum. Other Forum participants include Rupert Murdoch, Michael Bloomberg, and James Tisch.

On June 15, IDEO's Fred Dust will participate in the Design Trust/MAS Garment District panel at the School of Visual Arts Theater in New York. The panel will discuss the cultural, economic, and social contributions of creative communities, and explore how improved visibility of the activities within these neighborhoods can strengthen those creative industries and New York City.

For more information and to register, click here.

May 15, 2010,
IDEO's Owen Rogers spoke at the 2010 TEDx Tokyo event. Watch his talk here.

April 19-21, 2010
IDEO’s Tim Brown spoke yesterday at the Global Philanthropy Forum Conference on the “Levers of Change” panel. His talk, “Design Thinking: Leveraging Ideas” is available to view here.

June 16-18, 2010
IDEO founder David Kelley will be speaking about design thinking at Stanford’s Innovation Masters Series titled "Gaining a Competitive Advantage in an Uncertain Economy."
For more information, click here.

SXSW offers the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. IDEO joins in with Ben Fullerton a panelist on “Design for the Dark Side” and Jennifer Leonard a panelist on “Design Fiction: Props, Prototypes, Predicaments Communicating New Ideas.”

March 11-12, 2010

The Economist is hosting a conference to explore how today’s challenges reflect customers’ fast-changing needs. At the event, IDEO’s Paul Bennett joins the discussion about how businesses need to start thinking of new ways to compete. Click to the Economist's website for more information about the conference.

February 2, 2010
This IDEO event explores the human side of social media. It's an experiment itself, in that it uses face-to-face interactions and connections to inform the way we think about and create social media tools. See what kind of provocative ideas and dialogue emerge from the experience. Watch the live stream.

March 2, 2010, 10am - 5pm

Your invited to join the Vine Salon, “User-Based Design Solutions to Meet the Challenges of Community” — a day of hands-on workshops and collaborative design thinking exercises, followed by a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception. The event, hosted by PCBC, will take place at IDEO's Palo Alto office.
For more information about the event or to buy tickets to the event, click here.
Download the program agenda here.

Last night, IDEO Chicago hosted an IxDA networking / knowledge-sharing event in its brand-new Chicago studio titled “Embracing the Physical/Digital Divide: Projects and Inspiration from IDEO Chicago.” The event allowed IDEO designers to showcase cutting-edge interaction design and (re)introduce themselves to the city’s creative community.
Learn more about IxDA Chicago here.
Check out pictures of the event on IDEO's Facebook page.

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.

November 14, 2009

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

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.

October 27-30, 2009

TEDMED celebrates conversations that tackle the big issues of health, from personal and public health care to devices, Hollywood, and hospitals. At the event, IDEO’s Tim Brown will ask, “What happens with a design thinking approach to health care?”

Tim’s talk is Wednesday morning. To see the full schedule, click here.

IDEO’s Sue Siddall will speak at Barcelona Design Week with Michael Thomson, founder of Design Connect and former president of the Bureau of European Design Associations. The event is running alongside two European Commission-funded initiatives, the Innovation Festival Barcelona and European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009.

Activities at the BCN Design Week will include a session on designing mobile telephone experiences, a conference on design thinking, and a design management awards ceremony.

November 3-4, 2009

IDEO's Fred Dust will serve on a Panel at Aspen In New York: Capitalism and the Future, sponsored by the The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program.