Uh oh! Looks like your browser’s out of date.
You’ll have more fun viewing our site on one of these instead.
You’ll have more fun viewing our site on one of these instead.
×
How We Make It
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.
BlogDave Vondle & Chris Kucharczyk
Use These ‘Dummy Numbers’ When Prototyping With Data
BlogDave Vondle
Designing a Video Game on a Very, Very Small Scale
BlogBrian Lange
Inviting Algorithms to the Design Team
BlogGabriel Mugar
Why It's Important to Say Please and Thank You to Robots
BlogMarta Soto
Training a Computer to Find Shapes in the Clouds
BlogReid Williams
What a Computer Learns From Watching Hours of Cartoons
BlogSean Mulholland
How to Experiment with 360˚ Video
BlogNat Steinsultz
Why Your Office Needs a Laugh Detector
BlogJochen Weber & Tiffany Yuan & Leo Marzolf
Teaching AI to See Our Best Side
BlogSophy Lee
Design Like You Can Hear the Page
BlogAshley Holtgraver
Why I’m Building a TV For My Baby
BlogSean Mulholland
How to Make Cinemagraphs with Your iPhone
BlogDavid Rose
Why Gesture is the Next Big Thing in Design
BlogAlex Staudt
How I Taught Myself to Code in 3D
BlogRob Rehrig
How to Hack a Furby
BlogSean Mulholland
Designing the Siris and Alexas of the World
BlogElias Thaddäus Pfuner
Using Code and Wood to Make Data Tangible
BlogJavier Soto Morras
5 Things My Startup Taught Me About Design
BlogJacob Waites
Why You Should Keep Making Stuff By Hand
BlogDave Vondle
How We Did It: Snapchat-Enabled Safety Goggles
BlogJacob Waites
From Fungal Networks to Connected Businesses
BlogDaniel Tauber
Could AI Replace Design Researchers?
BlogRob Rehrig
Designing for DEF CON
BlogElise Craig
Catching Ghosts
BlogJavier Soto Morras
Creating a Customized VR Experience
BlogAlex Staudt & Anna Silverstein
How To Tackle Obesity In Your Spare Time
BlogMatt Cooper-Wright
Welcoming Bots to the Design Team
BlogJoerg Student
Designing for Burning Man: the Shrumen Lumen
BlogChris Milne & Anna Silverstein
The Big Green Button
BlogNeil Stevenson
Great Balls of Fun
BlogBarry Lachapelle
When Physical Met Digital in the Fields of Myanmar
BlogGrace Nicklin & Greg Wolos
How to Say Goodbye with 20,000 Dowels
BlogDanny Brooks
Redesigning the Bagel
BlogGarrett Winther
Quantifying Nemo
BlogLeif Huff
Make a Guitar (at the Office)
BlogAlex Staudt
How We Did It: GIF Dance Party
BlogRob Rehrig
How to Hack Your Next Circuit Board Project
BlogSara Breselor
Veggie Vision: Designing the Kitchen of the Future
BlogSara Breselor
Dispatch from the Toy Lab: Monster Moves
BlogNikolay Vladimirov
Build Your Own Light Pipe
BlogGarrett Winther & Travis Lee
Building the Pong-a-Tron
BlogEd White & Miha Feus & Siri Johansson
Beachsand and the Talking Bell
BlogSara Breselor
A Programming Language That Speaks to Designers
BlogBarry Lachapelle
Just Skeu It
BlogTasos Karahalios
Designing a Kitchen-Leftovers Spy Cam
BlogBurton Rast
The Best Way to Complain is to Make Things
BlogBradley Simpson
How We Did It: Project Edison
BlogMark Harrison
My Four All-Time Favorite Workarounds
BlogJason Cohn
Information Overload
BlogHailei Wang
Painting with Code
BlogChris Milne
How to Make a Fauxtobooth
BlogBradley Simpson