Open Conversation

What’s the upside to a downturn? As the economy contracts and cost cutting expands, how can organizations keep creatively fresh and identify opportunities that create growth in a recession? In other words, how do we emerge stronger? Each week we tackle one big question. [Join the brainstorm on Facebook]


Culture

Digital Postcards

Join IDEO's in-the-field researchers and cultural rovers. [Read more]



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Networked Culture

Our Thinking

IDEO's focus lies at the intersection of insight and inspiration, and is informed by business, technology, and culture. [Read more]




A Global Chain Reaction

IDEO designers build a Rube Goldberg contraption that covers eight cities and three continents in fourteen minutes. [See more]

Work / Featured Case Studies

Designing the ‘Virtual Wallet’

The 'Virtual Wallet' is a suite of products by PNC Financial Services Group that let customers control and grow their money. [Read more]

Ethical Consumerism

Human-centered design helps NGO Oxfam understand consumer behaviors and motivations to up awareness of consumption. [Read more]

Designing for Social Impact

The Rockefeller Foundation connects design firms to the social sector, building better lives through a global call to action. [Read more]

Wheels for Empty Nesters

Toyota won over Baby Boomers in the ’70s. Now design research informs the making of a new vehicle for empty nesters. [Read more]

Streamlined Operation

Medtronic Navigation coupled hardware and software for a surgical solution that allows efficient workflow for surgeons & staffs. [Read more]


IDEO ranks #5
The Business of Design Thinking

Harvard Business Review presents IDEO's approach to developing the methods and sensibility of a designer. [Read more]

Harvard Business Review

Design Dialogue

IDEO’s Tim Brown blogs about how design thinking transforms products, services, processes, strategy. [Go to Tim’s blog]

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