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Articles: IDEO Speakers at South By Southwest

2010-03-04T22:56:55-08:00

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.”

Articles: Paul Bennett Presents at The Economist’s ‘Big Rethink: Redesigning Business’ Summit

2010-03-03T19:15:29-08:00

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.

Articles: IDEO Hosts Event on Behavior Change: Change+

2010-02-19T00:06:25-08:00

January 21, 2010
Behavior change is more than a trend; it’s a sign of the times. Behavioral economists have joined the ranks of full-time staff at the White House, books covering the topic rank high on the New York Times best-seller list, and increasingly, businesses are asking IDEO to tackle behavior change issues, whether they are about weight loss, smoking cessation, home energy monitors, engaged banking and more.
In the spirit of experimentation, IDEO San Francisco opened its doors recently for a social event called Change+. The goal was to assemble a diverse crowd, share provocations and stimulate dialogue.
Read the several IDEO PATTERNS on behavior change here.

Articles: IDEO Makes Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies List

2010-02-18T20:13:13-08:00

IDEO has been named one of Fast Company's 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2010.
View the full list here.

Articles: IDEO Method Card iPhone Application

2010-02-17T16:51:55-08:00

Keep people at the center of your work. Ask them how to help, see what they do, and learn from the facts you gather. IDEO has become a leader in design and innovation by keeping people at the center of the design process. These cards show some of the methods we use to inspire great design. Each card describes one method and includes a brief story about how and when to use it. This app isn’t a “how to” guide. It’s a design tool meant to help you explore new approaches and develop your own. Use the deck of 51 cards to take a new view and inspire creativity. The Method Card app is released as a free download with 8 cards for you to experience on your iPhone or iTouch. You can purchase the full deck of 51 cards for $4.99 within the application, eliminating the step of having to leave the app to upgrade your experience.

Articles: PNC Virtual Wallet Named Edison Finalist for ‘Best New Product’

2010-02-16T19:38:46-08:00

Virtual Wallet, an IDEO project with PNC Financial Services Group, has been chosen as a 2010 Edison Best New Products Award finalist. The awards celebrate the persistence and excellence personified by Thomas Alva Edison and work to increase America’s drive in the realm of innovation, creativity and ingenuity throughout the global economy.

Watch a live announcement about the awards on Discovery.com. (The dial-in question number is (240) 662-1815.)

Articles: Tim Brown Interviewed by the Huffington Post

2010-02-12T22:16:31-08:00

Reporter Jonathan Daniel Harris interviewed IDEO’s Tim Brown at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. In the article, he explains that object design has a place beside public policy and corporate social responsibility. In fact, design thinking, he says, may be necessary to enact any real change from the policy side. Click to the Huffington Post for the full article.

Articles: IDEO Announces the Living Climate Change Video Challenge

2010-02-10T22:55:45-08:00

Presented by IDEO and hosted by DESIGN 21: Social Design Network, the Living Climate Change Video Challenge aims to extend the conversation about how daily life is shaped by climate change to a wide global audience. People of all ages are invited to create their own 2-minute videos, which will be evaluated by a panel of expert judges drawn from education, technology, media, and government.

For details, including prize information, visit Living Climate Change.

Articles: Paul Bennett Discusses Collaboration in The Independent

2010-02-09T17:27:29-08:00

In an online article for the publication's business section, IDEO’s Paul Bennett writes, “Look to collaborate with those who can do what you can’t.” Click here for the full article. By Paul Bennett

Articles: Design Thinker

2010-02-09T00:51:44-08:00

Design Thinker is a simulation game created ExperiencePoint in collaboration with IDEO that provides a meaningful experience with design thinking. Users compete to solve a realistic and complex challenge using design thinking, while engaging with the terms, techniques and thought patterns of successful innovators. Built for designers and non-designers alike, Design Thinker creates an energizing, practical and relevant learning experience that supports tangible business objectives using leading edge technology. The game can be easily integrated into leadership and management development programs, and its innovation content is readily linked to other key business learning modules and applied to action-learning projects.

To learn more about Design Thinker, visit experiencepoint.com/sims/DesignThinker

Articles: Follow a IDEO’s New York Social Media Week Event Via a Live Feed

2010-02-02T22:02:05-08:00

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.

Articles: Tim Brown Joins the Sustainability Debate at Davos

2010-02-02T18:32:17-08:00

Columnist and panel moderator Alice Rawsthorn asks, What exactly is sustainable design? What constitutes success? And failure? On what criteria? These issues were debated at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The panel, “Design for Sustainability,” included William McDonough, the American architect who co-authored the book, “Cradle to Cradle”; Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity; and IDEO's Tim Brown. Click here for the full story.

Articles: How Holistic Design Can Help Business

2010-02-02T02:01:42-08:00

In an online article for BusinessWeek, Diego Rodriguez explains that good business outcomes treat design as a holistic process that pulls in savvy marketing and research, as well as smart ideas. For him, it's why design matters. Click here for the full article.

Articles: Open Invitation to PCBC’s Vine Salon at IDEO

2010-01-29T21:59:22-08:00

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.

Articles: Global Tap on Design Observer

2010-01-29T21:42:01-08:00

Design Observer’s Ernerst Beck highlights GlobalTap, a way to bring water to haves and have-nots alike with one simple system. Click here to read the full article.

Articles: Sandy Speicher in ‘Back to the Future’

2010-01-27T20:00:53-08:00

Sandy Speicher is included in the Metropolis article, “Back to the Future.” In the story, Sandy explains, "When you're looking at new models of education, the first question is: How much do you want to stick to the paradigm, and how much do you want to break it?” To learn more, read the full article.

Articles: Forbes’ Saj-nicole Joni Interviews Tim Brown About Design Thinking

2010-01-20T19:32:15-08:00

Forbes columnist Saj-nicole Joni interviews Tim Brown about why the world needs more design thinking. Read the full article.

Articles: Embracing the Physical/Digital Divide: Projects and Inspiration from IDEO Chicago

2010-01-14T19:01:42-08:00

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.

Articles: IDEO Introduces Designs On– Food

2010-01-14T18:35:00-08:00

Food is a complex topic — it touches on the essence of our being and our culture, all while transforming our lives in fundamental ways. Designs On– approaches food with the eyes of someone ready to enjoy a succulent meal. The results are fresh and provocative. The designers were willing to go off the beaten path, to question their personal assumptions and to move beyond the realm of expected possibilities. Designs On– Food is the third in a series of concepts, following the the topics of global warming and time.

View the Designs On– website at www.designs-on.com.

Articles: The Design Council in the United Kingdom Selects a New Design Officer

2010-01-14T18:14:27-08:00

Mat Hunter, a former partner at IDEO, has been appointed as the new chief design officer for the Design Council in the United Kingdom.
Read the article in Design Week here.

Articles: ‘Decisions by Design: Stop Deciding, Start Designing’

2010-01-13T01:07:39-08:00

IDEO's Colin Raney and Ryan Jacoby wrote, “Decisions by Design: Stop Deciding, Start Designing,” in the Winter 2010 issue of Rotman, the magazine for the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

Articles: Bill Moggridge Appointed Director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

2010-01-06T16:40:35-08:00

Bill Moggridge has the incredible honor of leading the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York as the museum's newest director. He replaces Acting Director Caroline Baumann, who stepped in after the departure of Paul Warwick Thompson last summer.

Last year, Moggridge was given the Cooper Hewitt's Lifetime Achievement award, presented by First Lady Michelle Obama. Read about the award here.

Articles: Paul Bennett Says the Biggest Idea Might be Learning to Think Small

2010-01-06T16:07:51-08:00

Paul Bennett’s article in London's Financial Times, “The Biggest Idea Might be Learning to Think Small,” highlights his recent trip to Bangladesh, where he met Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus. While in India, Paul learned from the Grameen organization, its micro-financing banking system, and its collaboration with global French food group, Danone.
Read the article here or find it in the Business Life section of the Financial Times’s print version.

Articles: Phil McKnney Interviews Ford and IDEO About the Co-Innovation of Ford Fusion

2009-12-22T19:19:35-08:00

Phil McKinney moderates a podcast interview with Dave Watson from Ford and Steve Bishop from IDEO. They discuss their co-innovation project on the Ford Fusion — a collaboration resulting in the development of the next generation instrument experience. This interview addresses the challenges in creating breakthrough innovations inside large corporations, co-innovation approaches and benefits, human-centered design approaches, the value of prototyping, and keys to staying focused.
Listen to the podcast here.
Read more about the interview here.
Learn more about IDEO's work with Ford here.

Articles: Change By Design on Fast Company’s Best Business Books of 2009 List

2009-12-18T18:39:52-08:00

Tim Brown's Change By Design made Fast Company's list, "The Best Business Books of 2009."
Read the magazine's review of the book here. Learn more about the full list here.

Articles: Change By Design Tops BusinessWeek List of Best Design and Innovation Books

2009-12-18T01:38:49-08:00

Tim Brown's Change By Design tops BusinessWeek's "Best Innovation and Design Books of 2009" list. I Miss My Pencil by IDEO's Martin Bone and Kara Johnson is also recognized.

Read about the list here.

Articles: HCD Toolkit Highlighted on Boing Boing

2009-12-14T18:51:43-08:00

Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow highlights IDEO's Human-Centered Design Toolkit and its option for a free download. People across the Web have downloaded more than 23,000 copies of the toolkit.

Articles: ‘Inspired Design is Essential — and All Too Rare’

2009-12-02T14:19:08-08:00

In the Wall Street Journal, Gary Hamel writes about the power and importance of design, highlighting Tim Brown's take on design thinking. As Gary puts it, “Tim’s argument: design should be viewed instead as a fundamental business discipline that can produce insanely loyal customers and fat, chunky margins (and also help us solve global-scale challenges like pollution and poverty).” For the full article, click here. For information about Tim’s book on design thinking, Change by Design, click here.

Articles: IDEO Reimagines the Lowly Thermostat

2009-12-01T14:21:34-08:00

Reporter Tim McKeough highlights the ideas of design director Martin Bone and IDEO materials expert Kara Johnson. "We were trying to study things that get overlooked," explained Martin, noting that he's dismayed by uninspired "everyday things like thermostats, switches, and plugs." Kara Johnson adds that the redesigned thermostat is largely about making our interaction with such objects more human. The pair recently published the product, along with 11 other experiments, in I Miss My Pencil. For the full story, click here.

Articles: Tom Kelley Interviewed in El País and El Correo

2009-11-24T13:28:06-08:00

IDEO's Tom Kelley recently spoke at Bilbao’s Global Business Conference in Spain and was interviewed by two major Spanish publication, El País and El Correo. El País is the most widely circulated newspaper in Spain.
“Nunca hay que malgastar una buena crisis,” El Correo (Read the full article in Spanish here.) “Con China sólo se puede competir con algo novedoso,” El País (Read the full article in Spanish here.)

Articles: Tim Brown and Jocelyn Wyatt in the Stanford Social Innovation Review

2009-11-23T18:04:27-08:00

By Tim Brown and Jocelyn Wyatt
Designers have traditionally focused on enhancing the look and functionality of products. Recently, they have begun using design tools to tackle more complex problems, such as finding ways to provide low-cost healthcare throughout the world. Businesses were first to embrace this new approach—called design thinking—now nonprofits are beginning to adopt it too. Read Tim and Jocelyn’s article here.
Download the PDF here.

Articles: IDEO’s John Rehm at the Design Thinking Symposium

2009-11-16T09:53:00-08:00

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.

Articles: IDEO Wins Sustainable Suite Design Competition

2009-11-11T00:05:46-08:00

The USGBC, American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), and The Network of the Hospitality Industry (NEWH) together announced the winner of the first ever Sustainable Suite Design Competition. The competition showcased the best hospitality design strategies that boast environmental responsibility while enhancing the guest experience. Out of 65 professional design entries, IDEO and WATG took the top prize for their suite, Haptik. For more information, click here.

Articles: IDEO’s Intranet, The Tube, Wins Intranet Innovation Award

2009-11-08T01:14:29-08:00

IDEO’s intranet, The Tube, has been honored with an Intranet Innovation Award. The IIAs are global awards that celebrate new ideas and innovative approaches to the enhancement and delivery of intranets. The goal is to find these ideas (whether large or small), and to share them with the wider community. Gold Awards are given across four different categories, each focusing on a specific aspect of intranets. Platinum Award winners are then chosen to recognize the most extraordinary entries for the year. To read more about the awards, click here.

Articles: Bill Moggridge at User Friendly 2009

2009-11-06T17:18:45-08:00

November 14, 2009

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

Articles: IDEO Reinvents British Manners for WIRED UK

2009-11-05T00:37:47-08:00

In the December issue of WIRED UK, Ben Hammersley writes about how IDEO approaches design thinking as a practical way to solve problems. Read the full article here. To read what editor-in-chief David Rowan said about IDEO, click here.

Download the PDF here.

Articles: IDEO Presents ‘The Future Present’ at Tokyo Design Week

2009-11-03T20:55:30-08:00

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.

Articles: Gentry Underwood Writes About Social Software

2009-11-03T17:13:07-08:00

In “Social Software: The Other ‘Design for Social Impact,’” Gentry Underwood discusses the use of social software tools, from wikis to Facebook, in the corporate environment. Read the article on Core77 here.

Articles: IDEO Wins Four Spark Awards

2009-10-30T14:13:11-08:00

IDEO received a top Spark Award for PNC Bank’s Virtual Wallet, two Gold awards for Bedsider for The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and Nurse Knowledge Exchange for Kaiser Permanente, and a Bronze award for IDEO’s Tube.

Spark is a competition created to support “multidisciplinary, multicultural, global, and aspirational design for all.” Read more about the award entries here.

Articles: Tim Brown Speaks at TEDMED 2009

2009-10-27T19:24:08-08:00

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.

Articles: IDEO’s Sue Siddall Speaks at Design Week

2009-10-26T16:15:29-08:00

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.

Articles: Tim Brown Talks to The New York Times About Asking Questions

2009-10-26T14:39:31-08:00

In the Corner Office column of The New York Times, Adam Bryant interviews Tim Brown about leadership and lessons learned. Click here for the full article in The Times.

Articles: Fred Dust at Aspen In New York: Capitalism and the Future

2009-10-26T14:37:23-08:00

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.

Articles: Tim Brown Writes About the Making of a Design Thinker

2009-10-21T18:51:47-08:00

On Metropolis, Tim Brown writes about how he came to design. “It took years before this industrial designer realized that the true power of his craft transcended the physical object,” he explains. Read more about the making of a design thinker here .

Articles: Design Observer’s Debbie Millman Talks with Tim Brown

2009-10-21T18:39:38-08:00

Tim Brown is interviewed on Design Observer’s “Design Matters with Debbie Millman,” where he reviews his career at IDEO, explores the impact of design processes (drawing and storytelling), as well as discussing his new book, Change By Design. Listen to the interview here.

Articles: IDEO Makes the GOOD 100

2009-10-19T22:47:16-08:00

GOOD magazine included “IDEO Social Impact” on its list of the GOOD 100. Others included on the list are Hillary Clinton, Electric Cars, Harlem Children’s Zone, and TEDx. Read the article here.

Articles: IDEO and the Center for Information Therapy Team Up

2009-10-17T19:01:36-08:00

IDEO’s Connected Health team and the Center for Information Therapy joined forces to identify novel ways to bring information therapy to patients at safety-net organizations. The California Healthcare Foundation funded the effort, which included a workshop where IDEO provided design process expertise, the center provided content expertise, and a variety of physicians from primary-care safety-net clinics provided field expertise. A workshop deliverable, posted on the Center for Information Therapy’s website, summarizes the workshop’s outcomes.

Articles: Dubai’s First TED Talk Recapped

2009-10-16T23:34:21-08:00

The Khaleej Times reported on Paul Bennett’s Dubai talk, highlighting his IDEO Facebook question, What is your dream for Dubai? Read the full story here. Join the next IDEO Facebook conversation here.

Articles: An IDEO Know-How on Fora.tv

2009-10-13T20:50:23-08:00

FORA.tv is featuring IDEO’s Know-How Talks online. The first of the batch is Scott Dadich talking about designing Wired magazine and developing a creative culture. IDEO’s Neil Stevenson and Sandy Speicher introduce the talk. Watch the video here.

For a list of all IDEO Know-How Talks, click here.

Articles: Tim Brown Discusses Healthcare on NPR

2009-10-12T16:19:50-08:00

Renee Montagne interviews Tim Brown about his book Change By Design. Tim explains how IDEO uses design techniques and strategies to solve problems for clients in the health-care industry, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente. Listen to the interview here.

Articles: Eileen Fisher in The New York Times

2009-10-12T16:14:34-08:00

The New York Times shows off Eileen Fisher's shifting silhouette. IDEO worked with Eileen Fisher’s namesake company to help it show people its clothes in a different light. IDEO embarked on comprehensive research, watching younger Fisher employees put together outfits, visiting customers’ homes to study their wardrobes and even accompanying some on shopping trips. Read the full article here.

Articles: The Wall Street Journal on Change By Design

2009-10-08T23:32:49-08:00

Reporter David A. Price highlights Tim Brown’s Change By Design in The Wall Street Journal. Read the full article here.

Articles: David Kelley Speaks at the Nueva Gifted Learning Conference

2009-10-08T19:04:35-08:00

October 16, 2009

David Kelley will speak on innovations in education at the Nueva Gifted Learning Conference, held at the Nueva School in Hillsborough, California.

Articles: Paul Bennett to Speak at TEDx Dubai

2009-10-06T22:20:27-08:00

October 10, 2009

IDEO’s Paul Bennett will speak at TEDx Dubai, asking, “What is YOUR dream for Dubai?” For a preview of Paul at TEDx Dubai, listen to his interview on Dubai’s “Nightline with James Piecowye.”

Watch a video of the talk here.

Articles: IDEO’s Paul Bennett on Design

2009-10-06T21:52:06-08:00

IDEO’s Paul Bennett was interviewed on Dubai’s “Nightline with James Piecowye,” one of the UAE’s top talk radio shows. The interview anticipates Paul’s presentation at TEDx Dubai on Tuesday, October 10, 2009.

Listen to the podcast here.

Articles: Axel Unger Interviewed About Design for Healthcare

2009-10-05T16:27:12-08:00

IDEO’s Axel Unger is featured in the article “Design Moves Into the Spotlight,” published in Pharma Marketing Journal. Axel discusses the important role design can play in the healthcare industry.

Download the article in English here
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Articles: Axel Unger im Interview zum Thema Healthcare und Design

2009-10-05T16:20:39-08:00

Axel Unger von IDEO im Interview mit dem Pharma Marketing Journal. In dem Artikel “Design rückt in den Mittelpunkt” beschreibt er die Schlüsselrolle von Design im Bereich Healthcare.

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Articles: Why Tim Brown Thinks Design Matters

2009-10-01T21:26:12-08:00

Reporter George Beane at Metropolis highlights Tim Brown and his book Change by Design, after attending a talk at the New School’s David Schwartz Fashion Education Center in New York. Read the full story here.

Articles: David Aycan Among the Twenty-One People Who Will Change Business

2009-09-30T22:21:54-08:00

As part of a special package on design schools, BusinessWeek named twenty-one people who will change business. Among them: David Aycan, one of about 18 business designers at IDEO. Read the full story here.

Articles: Tim Brown Urges Designers to Think Big at TEDGlobal 2009

2009-09-29T14:31:28-08:00

At TEDGlobal in London, Tim Brown talked about how design got small — and why it’s big again. Design is moving beyond the object displayed in lifestyle magazines or on pedestals in museums of modern art. It’s returning to its roots, when design thinkers like Isambard Brunel created innovative breakthroughs.
Watch the video of Tim's talk here.

Articles: Living Climate Change on Fast Company

2009-09-29T14:16:44-08:00

Fast Company’s Noah Robischon highlights Living Climate Change, as a place to imagine what that future will look like through design thinking. Join the discussion at LivingClimateChange.com.

Articles: Tim Brown Redefines a Profession

2009-09-28T20:28:07-08:00

Alice Rawsthorn, a design critic writing for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times, reviews Tim Brown’s book Change By Design, which tells how design thinking can transform organizations and inspire innovation. The article highlights Tim’s view that the best design thinkers today are applying their skills to problems that matter. Read the story or Tim's blog.

Articles: Change By Design In BusinessWeek

2009-09-25T20:59:56-08:00

IDEO’s Tim Brown writes about design thinking in BusinessWeek. He explains how businesses can transform the way they work by tapping frontline staff to engineer change. Read the article here.

Articles: Need to Reinvigorate Your Business? Think Like a Designer

2009-09-25T20:29:06-08:00

BNET's Paul Sloan interviews Tim Brown about his new book Change By Design and asks how design thinking can help companies innovate.
Read the article here.

Articles: Why Businesses Should Think Like Designers

2009-09-24T01:16:49-08:00

Michael Arndt, senior editor for Innovation and Design at BusinessWeek, interviews IDEO’s Tim Brown in “Why Businesses Should Think Like Designers.”

Listen to the podcast here.

Articles: Doug Solomon Attends The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative

2009-09-22T17:49:01-08:00

September 22-25, 2009

IDEO's Doug Solomon will attend the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative hosted by former President Bill Clinton. Meeting attendees include President Barack Obama, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent, and other leading voices from the corporate, nonprofit, and government sectors. Doug will participate in the seminar "Becoming Embedded: Co-creating Business with the Community."
Watch the live webcast here. (Forward to 20 minutes into the video to watch the panel)

Articles: Gentry Underwood Speaks at PICNIC

2009-09-17T16:17:49-08:00

September 23-24, 2009

IDEO’s Gentry Underwood and Pixar’s Michael B. Johnson present “Social Networking Meet Social Engineering: Building software for the busy workplace” at PICNIC Amsterdam. The talk addresses Web 2.0 technologies in the workplace and the need for a human-centered approach.

Articles: Paul Bennett Speaks on ‘Designing Tomorrow’

2009-09-17T16:17:35-08:00

September 23-24, 2009

IDEO’s Paul Bennett will speak on “Designing Tomorrow” at “You Are In Contro” in Reykjavik, hosted by the Icelandic Music Export. The conference will address the latest developments in digital music, media, and the arts.

Articles: New Schools Venture Fund Summit Report Released

2009-09-14T19:55:08-08:00

The New Schools Venture Fund has just released the report from its May 2009 event, which featured David Kelley as the keynote speaker and session support from Beth Viner and Sandy Speicher. The report discusses how education entrepreneurs can think about innovation and includes an in-depth overview of the keynote presentation.

To download "Innovating Toward Excellence: Education Entrepreneurs and the Transformation of Public Education: A Report on the Tenth Annual New Schools Summit," click here.

Articles: IDEO Wins 2009 Open Architecture Challenge

2009-09-11T20:40:01-08:00

Architecture for Humanity recently announced the winners of the 2009 Open Architecture Challenge. This year the competition was focused on classroom design. IDEO's design for Rumi Schools of Excellence was selected to win the Urban Classroom Upgrade category. More than 1,000 design teams from 65 countries registered for the competition. The winning designs were selected from more than 400 qualified entries, each rated on feasibility, sustainability, and innovation in the learning environment.

Read about the winners here.

Articles: IDEO Helps Get Water to The World’s Poorest

2009-09-11T20:21:04-08:00

Forbes magazine's Kerry Dolan covers the IDEO's Ripple Effect project with Acumen Fund. The project addresses the need for clean water transport solutions in developing nations, specifically India and Kenya.

Read the article here.

Articles: Chicago 2016 Summit

2009-09-11T17:56:06-08:00

September 11, 2009

IDEO CTO Doug Solomon presented at the Chicago 2016 Summit on Sport and Sustainability where he shared the work behind a collaborate effort between IDEO and Digital Kitchen titled "Engaging New Audiences."
Watch the video here.

Articles: Tim Brown Speaks on Putting People First

2009-09-04T17:27:40-08:00

September 8, 2009

IDEO’s Tim Brown and Acumen Fund's Jacqueline Novogratz speak on “Putting the People First: Human Centered Poverty Alleviation.” The event will be held at Stanley Hall at the University of California in Berkeley and is open to the public.
For more information, click here.
To watch video clips of the talk, click here.
Read the Acumen Fund blog post about the talk here.

Articles: ‘What Obama Is Learning from Facebook, Google and Ideo’

2009-08-31T20:05:04-08:00

In “What the Obama Administration Is Learning from Facebook, Google, and Ideo,” reporter Eliot Van Buskirk chronicles the recent efforts of John Berry, the head of the Office of Personnel Management for Barack Obama. Berry, tasked by the President to make government work “cool again,” visited IDEO and found what he called “phenomenal people, outside-the-box thinking, [and] creative approaches to how they manage people.”

Articles: Jocelyn Wyatt Considers How We Might Put People at the Center of Innovation

2009-08-26T17:29:29-08:00

IDEO's Jocelyn Wyatt writes for the Innovation in Evaluation blog this week. Her post "How Might We Put People at the Center of Evaluation?" discusses IDEO's work with International Development Enterprises (IDE) in Ethiopia and VisionSpring in India.

Articles: Design’s Odd Couple

2009-08-24T18:54:52-08:00

"Design's Odd Couple" by IDEO's James Moed and Fran Samalionis was recently published in Touchpoint, the new journal of the Service Design Network. In the article, Moed (a business strategist) and Samalionis (a service designer) explore their contrasting experiences with the people and places around them.

Articles: IDEO at Social Capital Markets 2009

2009-08-24T18:43:00-08:00

September 1-3, 2009

On September 1, IDEO's Sally Madsen will be presenting at the Social Capital Markets conference for a panel titled “Disruptive innovation: Three successful approaches to scaling impact.” She will be representing the Ripple Effect project with Acumen Fund.
Patrice Martin and Jocelyn Wyatt will lead a workshop with SustainAbility on the "Future of Corporate Capitalism: Connecting Money with Meaning and the Leadership Imperative of Corporations" at the BeDo Intrapreneurs event.

On September 2, Doug Solomon speaks on the panel “ICT4 Who? Helping Specific Groups Using Tech for Impact.” Aaron Sklar and Tatyana Mamut will lead a session titled "Human Centered Evaluation."

Articles: IDEO partners with the Design for Giving School Contest

2009-08-18T18:36:07-08:00

August 15 - Oct 15, 2009

The Design for Giving Contest is motivating schools across India to reimagine the act of giving. Taking place from August 15th to Oct 15th, the contest involves more than 30,000 schools across India. School children will design and implement solutions to help people in need. The goal of this movement is to help children realize that they can "be the change" they want to see in the world.

The Design for Giving Contest is part of the “Joy of Giving” week and is organized by the Riverside School, Ahmedabad and GiveIndia. Knowledge partners include Stanford’s d.school and IDEO.

Articles: Doug Solomon on Social Impact Work at IDEO

2009-08-12T18:36:50-08:00

IDEO’s Doug Solomon writes on tackling some of the world's biggest problems by applying design thinking to social impact issues in “Innovation in Evaluation: an Introduction.”

Articles: The Future Of Innovation is Holistic And Networked

2009-08-10T16:26:58-08:00

IDEO's Tom Hulme writes on the need for a networked and holistic approach to innovation for The Future of Innovation project. The project book will be published by Gower in November 2009.

Read the article here.

Articles: Webcast: Pretty Green - How to Design Truly Sustainable, Truly Beautiful Packaging

2009-08-03T23:07:18-08:00

Print magazine is hosting a live webcast on Aug. 4 with Joshua Onysko, founder and CEO of Pangea Organics, as well as Josh Ivy, the skincare company's lead designer.

Read about IDEO's work with Pangea here.

Articles: Ripple Effect in The Design Observer

2009-08-03T17:14:45-08:00

In “Ripple Effect: Finding safe drinking water is one problem; distributing it is quite another,” Ernest Beck writes about IDEO’s Ripple Effect project.

Read the article here.

Articles: Big Awards for the Year’s Best Design

2009-07-30T23:29:18-08:00

Fast Company reports on the IDEA Awards in "Big Awards for the Year's Best Industrial Design." IDEO topped the list for design firms with 8 wins.
Read the article here.

Articles: 2009 IDEA Winners Announced

2009-07-29T17:05:23-08:00

IDEO topped the list of IDSA award winners with eight IDEA awards. Winning designs ranged from human-centered design to research to industrial design. See the gallery on the IDSA’s website here.

Articles: Incubating Design Gene — An Interview with Richard Kelly, Managing Director of IDEO Asia Pacific

2009-07-28T17:07:46-08:00

A lot of Chinese companies agree that industrial design breeds enormous business value, while at the same time they consider industrial design to be nothing more than an add-on incremental innovation, the goal of which is limited to making products lighter, smaller or better-looking. So how will industrial design contribute to those Chinese companies that are eager to step beyond their status quo?

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Articles: Aaron Sklar Serves on CDC Inaugural Conference Panel

2009-07-27T18:37:40-08:00

July 27 - 29, 2009

IDEO's Aaron Sklar will be a panelist at Weight of the Nation, the Center for Disease Control's inaugural conference on obesity prevention and control. Aaron will serve on the "Leveraging Social Marketing to Reduce Adolescent Obesity" panel.

Weight of the Nation is hosted by CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Association of State and Territorial Public Health Nutrition Directors, the Directors of Health Promotion and Education, and the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors.

Articles: Bill Moggridge at the White House

2009-07-24T22:58:22-08:00

Bill Moggridge was honored at a White House luncheon with Michelle Obama along with 9 other recipients of the National Design Award, sponsored by the Cooper-Hewitt. Bill received the lifetime achievement award. Read the full story from The New York Times here.

Articles: Running Notes Highlighting Tim Brown at TEDGlobal

2009-07-23T18:39:59-08:00

James Duncan Davidson shares his running notes from Tim Brown’s TEDGlobal 2009 presentation in Oxford, England. Tim talked about how design got small—and can be big again.

Articles: Arna Ionescu Writes on Design Thinking for the Biotechnology Industry

2009-07-15T20:48:02-08:00

IDEO's Arna Ionescu writes on gaining a competitive advantage through design thinking in Australasian BioTechnology. The article is based on her workshop presentation at AusMedTech 2009.

To read the article online, click here and scroll to page 52.

Articles: IDEO’s Ripple Effect Profiled on Triple Pundit

2009-07-15T18:50:50-08:00

IDEO's Ripple Effect project with the Acumen Fund and the Gates Foundation, which explores innovation around clean water transport in developing countries, was profiled on Triple Pundit.

Read the article here.

Articles: IDEO and Oxfam Help Students Engage with Climate Change

2009-07-15T18:21:50-08:00

In "IDEO targets schools in climate change initiative," Design Week covers IDEO's work with Oxfam to help young people understand and engage with climate change.

Read the article here.

Articles: TEDblog on IDEO’s Guide to Designing for Social Impact

2009-07-13T22:29:32-08:00

TED, a nonprofit devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading,” blogged about the collaboration of IDEO with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, IDE, Heifer International and ICRW and the resulting Human-Centered Design (HCD) — a system used by multinational corporations to develop design solutions at the intersection of desirability, feasibility, and viability.

Articles: IDEO and Open Source Innovation

2009-07-07T23:11:55-08:00

As part of the Designers Accord’s Case Studies in Sustainability, Alissa Walker writes about IDEO’s collaboration with the Gates Foundation, IDE, Heifer, and the International Center for Research on Women to create the Human-Centered Design Toolkit. Read the full story here. To learn more about or to download the Human-Centered Design Toolkit, click here. Find out more about the Designers Accord here.

Articles: Can Designers Help Deliver Better Services?

2009-07-03T09:36:51-08:00

This article by IDEO's Fran Samalionis, is published in the new book Designing Services with Innovative Methods by Satu Miettinen and Mikko Koivisto.

Articles: IDEO Makes I.D. Magazine’s Annual Design Review

2009-06-30T10:22:10-08:00

ID magazine awarded IDEO a design distinction in its Annual Design Review 2009 for work on the Peek. According to the magazine, “It’s a game-changer,” and praised the interface and cheap access, explaining, “It’s all part of the easy-tech revolution.” Click here for the full article.

Articles: Happy Birthday, Method Cards!

2009-06-29T13:23:28-08:00

Fast Company blogger Craig Pelkey-Landes writes on IDEO’s method card deck in “IDEO Method Cards Turn, Um, 7!” Read the article here.

Articles: VisionSpring talks about their partnership with IDEO

2009-06-25T18:48:48-08:00

VisionSpring blogs about their partnership with IDEO and developing a model for integrating eye care for children in India.
Click here for the full discussion.
Click here to read about the VisionSpring project.

Articles: BusinessWeek Interviews Kara Johnson

2009-06-25T10:09:14-08:00

BusinessWeek’s “Innovation of the Week” podcast highlights Kara Johnson’s latest book, I Miss My Pencil (co-authored with Martin Bone). In the interview with BusinessWeek, Kara walk listeners through the book’s freewheeling experimentation. Listen to the podcast here or visit the I Miss My Pencil website.

Articles: IDEO’s Boston office hosts “The Big Reset”

2009-06-24T23:21:04-08:00

IDEO’s Boston office hosted “The Big Reset,” an event for friends and thought leaders to reflect on how today’s economy may shape tomorrow’s business opportunities. Check out the event and the ongoing discussion here.

Articles: Gentry Underwood at Enterprise 2.0

2009-06-22T09:03:44-08:00

June 24, 2009

Why do many internal Web 2.0 systems fail to thrive? Is it culture? Fear of new technology? Unspoken rules around collaboration and competition? Designing solutions that work means finding triggers for individual motivation, insisting on simple and intuitive UI, and integrating into existing workflows. IDEO’s Gentry Underwood shares key insights derived from his experience building knowledge sharing systems internally in his talk, “How to build collaborative software that people will actually use.” For more information about the conference, click here.