Archive

Sony and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have launched Open Planet Ideas, an open-innovation challenge that invites people around the world to submit inspirations and concepts that help to solve the question "How can today’s technology address the environmental challenges we’re all facing?" The challenge is powered by OpenIDEO and leverages the growing OpenIDEO community to contribute ideas.
Core77's Sara Jacobsen writes about the launch in "Introducing: Sony's Open Planet Ideas."
Learn more about the launch of Open Planet Ideas here.

GeekDad wants to know: What’s your favorite balloon animal? The IDEO Toy Lab creations can now be found on the Balloonimals app for both the iPhone and the iPad.
Read more here.

A new PATTERNS column in Fast Company’s Co.Design kicked off today: Read the preface by IDEO’s Suzanne Gibbs Howard here. She writes, “by sharing PATTERNS, we hope to help people design for greater impact within their organizations and communities. We believe more can happen when we work together.”


Colin Raney’s PATTERN, “IDEO’s Axioms for Starting Disruptive New Businesses,” appears in today’s edition. Read the article here.


To learn more about PATTERNS and read past issues, go to the PATTERNS website.

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 Aaron Sklar and Sally Madsen discuss working with foundations, nongovernmental organizations and social entrepreneurs in “Design for Social Impact,” published in the spring issue of Ergonomics in Design. The article explains “empathy, a community focus, and team preparation are among the human/humanity-centered principles for design and innovation in the developing world.”

View the PDF.

Calling it “the ATM of tomorrow,” the bank and credit union branding publication focuses on IDEO’s process and design. Read the article here.

In a post titled, “3 Ways to Think Like a Designer,” Suzanne Gibbs Howard talks about how business owners can leverage design thinking and the IDEO Method Cards to help spur design-based growth and innovation.
Read the full interview here.

In the piece "BBVA Pilots Sleek New ATMs," Bank Systems & Technology profiles the IDEO-designed bank machines, which have a thin touchscreen, a single slot for deposits and withdrawals and a new layout for increased privacy. Learn more about IDEO's work with BBVA here.
Read the full article here.

IDEO's Diego Rodriguez was named one of the smartest people in tech by Fortune magazine. Diego joins Apple’s Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg on the list.
Read the article here.
See other innovators on Fortune’s list here.

Columnist Matt May of OPEN Forum includes IDEO in his post, “5 iPhone Apps to Boost Your Creativity.”
Read the article here.
Learn more about the Method Card App the .

Design 21 announced the winners of the Living Climate Change Video Challenge on June 30. Hosted by IDEO, the contest asked participants to “create an original video that envisions how climate change will impact our lives over the next 20 to 30 years.” Two grand prizes and one honorable mention prize were awarded.
Fast Company, Core77, and FlavorPill covered the site and the results.
See the videos on the Living Climate Change site here.

In 2010, IDEO was given 12 IDEA awards by IDSA and Fast Company, with winning designs ranging from banking services to low-income housing communities to communications design work. Read the article here.

IDEA Gold:

• PNC Virtual Wallet in the Interactive Product Experiences category
• Best Western in the Service Design category
• Lilly Patient Posters in the Research category

IDEA Silver:

• AT&T 3G MicroCell in the Communication Tools category
• (RED)WIRE in the Interactive Product Experiences category
• The Community Builders in the Research category
• Lilly HumatroPen 6mg, 12mg and 24mg in the Medical & Scientific Products category

IDEA Bronze:

• Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0 in the Interactive Product Experiences category
• EILEEN FISHER in the Design Strategy category
• Ormondale Investigative Learning in the Design Strategy category
• QUE proReader in the Computer Equipment category
• Western Digital My Book and My Passport product suite in the Computer Equipment category

And IDEO's Jeff Chapin won a Gold Award/Best in Show for his Easy Latrine.

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.

Design blogger Jeffery Gangemi taps into Ryan’s thoughts on the interrelatedness of business, design, and education. Ryan talks about the “pragmatic mix” of business design – it’s a combination of entrepreneurship, commerce, and art – and business schools’ adoption of design thinking. Read the full post here.

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.

IDEO's Aislinn Dewey writes an article titled “Re-defining Comfort: Making Energy Conservation Less Painful” for Touchpoint, a magazine produced by the Service Design Network. Touchpoint's fourth issue tackles the topic "Service Design and Behavioural Change."

View the PDF.

For the second year in a row, IDEO tops Universum's list of MBA graduates' most coveted employers in Fortune.

See the full list here.

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

Sue Siddall, managing director of IDEO’s London office, is on the cover of HSBC’s 100 Thoughts, a newspaper supplement distributed throughout the UK in The Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph. 100 Thoughts is a collection of the freshest business ideas from around the world.

In her contribution, Sue challenges businesses to ask, What are we giving consumers beyond the product or service we are selling? What is our higher purpose?

Download the complete set of 100 Thoughts at HSBC.

Effective design thinking entails more than applying design methods. To produce the best outcomes, organizations need to develop — and trust — peoples’ design sensibilities.

DESIGN THINKING IS RECEIVING a great deal of attention as increasing numbers of innovative organizations succeed in solving complex problems by creative means. In doing so, many of these firms implement specific "design methods" such as observational research, iterative prototyping and storytelling alongside more mainstream approaches. But as any professional designer will attest, design thinking entails much more than applying methods: to create value, methods must be applied together with design sensibilities.

View the PDF.

In an interview with Mobile Behavior titled "Perspective: IDEO's Robert Suarez on Mobile and Human-Centered Design," Robert Suarez discusses trends in mobile technology and changes in user behavior.

In the news feature “Stretch Out In Economy Class,” CNN Business Traveller talks with IDEO’s Stacey Chang and executives from Air New Zealand about the recent project to redesign the long-haul travel experience.
Watch the video here.
Learn more about IDEO’s collaboration with Air new Zealand here.

In Your Health in 2020, IDEO’s Arna Ionescu explores the future of connected health care. She shows how new technologies seeded in the health industry will lead to significant improvements in patient care and overall health, and she demonstrates the power of integrated health systems in transforming the way we view wellness. Click to read the full story on Forbes.com.

In the associated graphic shown here (left), David Webster visualizes health trends in the form of a mind map. Connected health — seen as a network and a continuum — relies on the inherent links between technology and wellness.

Download the connected health mind map 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.

Following his visit the L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival where he spoke on “Thoughtless Communications” and “The Future Consumer”, IDEO's Paul Bennett appeared on ABC Lateline Business. He discussed how the fashion industry might re-consider the meaning of luxury, stating “I don’t think the luxury business is about selling products, I think the luxury business is about delivering service.”
Paul was also interviewed by ABC Radio National host Alan Saunders on the meaning of “Small is the new big.”