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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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Javier Soto Morras
5 Things My Startup Taught Me About Design
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Jacob Waites
Why You Should Keep Making Stuff By Hand
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Dave Vondle
How We Did It: Snapchat-Enabled Safety Goggles
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Jacob Waites
From Fungal Networks to Connected Businesses
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Daniel Tauber
Could AI Replace Design Researchers?
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Rob Rehrig
Designing for DEF CON
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Elise Craig
Catching Ghosts
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Javier Soto Morras
Creating a Customized VR Experience
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Alex Staudt & Anna Silverstein
How To Tackle Obesity In Your Spare Time
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Matt Cooper-Wright
Welcoming Bots to the Design Team
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Joerg Student
Designing for Burning Man: the Shrumen Lumen
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Chris Milne & Anna Silverstein
The Big Green Button
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Neil Stevenson
Great Balls of Fun
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Barry Lachapelle
When Physical Met Digital in the Fields of Myanmar
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Grace Nicklin & Greg Wolos
How to Say Goodbye with 20,000 Dowels
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Danny Brooks
Redesigning the Bagel
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Garrett Winther
Quantifying Nemo
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Leif Huff
Make a Guitar (at the Office)
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Alex Staudt
How We Did It: GIF Dance Party
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Rob Rehrig
How to Hack Your Next Circuit Board Project
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Sara Breselor
Veggie Vision: Designing the Kitchen of the Future
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Sara Breselor
Dispatch from the Toy Lab: Monster Moves
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Nikolay Vladimirov
Build Your Own Light Pipe
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Garrett Winther & Travis Lee
Building the Pong-a-Tron
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Ed White & Miha Feus & Siri Johansson
Beachsand and the Talking Bell
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Sara Breselor
A Programming Language That Speaks to Designers
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Barry Lachapelle
Just Skeu It
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Ethan Klein
How We Did It: Buildings Tell Us Just How Green They Really Are
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Tasos Karahalios
Designing a Kitchen-Leftovers Spy Cam
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Burton Rast
The Best Way to Complain is to Make Things
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Bradley Simpson
How We Did It: Project Edison
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Mark Harrison
My Four All-Time Favorite Workarounds
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Jason Cohn
Information Overload
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Hailei Wang
Painting with Code
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Chris Milne
How to Make a Fauxtobooth
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Bradley Simpson
Save the City, Stop the Muenster
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