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Stories that dive deep on the technical stuff—building, prototyping, experimenting, and exploring.
IDEO Labs is now part of the Octopus, IDEO's design blog. You'll find Labs stories, both new and old, on this page—scroll down for more.
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Dave Vondle & Chris Kucharczyk
Use These ‘Dummy Numbers’ When Prototyping With Data
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Dave Vondle
Designing a Video Game on a Very, Very Small Scale
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Brian Lange
Inviting Algorithms to the Design Team
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Gabriel Mugar
Why It's Important to Say Please and Thank You to Robots
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Marta Soto
Training a Computer to Find Shapes in the Clouds
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Reid Williams
What a Computer Learns From Watching Hours of Cartoons
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Sean Mulholland
How to Experiment with 360˚ Video
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Nat Steinsultz
Why Your Office Needs a Laugh Detector
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Jochen Weber & Tiffany Yuan & Leo Marzolf
Teaching AI to See Our Best Side
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Sophy Lee
Design Like You Can Hear the Page
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Ashley Holtgraver
Why I’m Building a TV For My Baby
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Sean Mulholland
How to Make Cinemagraphs with Your iPhone
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David Rose
Why Gesture is the Next Big Thing in Design
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Alex Staudt
How I Taught Myself to Code in 3D
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Rob Rehrig
How to Hack a Furby
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Sean Mulholland
Designing the Siris and Alexas of the World
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Steve Moore
A Toy Designer Shares His Secrets for Killer Halloween Costumes
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Elias Thaddäus Pfuner
Using Code and Wood to Make Data Tangible
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