Emerging
Tech Lab
IDEO’s Emerging Tech Lab brings a heart-led perspective to the rapidly evolving social and technological landscape, designing disruptive products, experiences, and services across the emerging technology ecosystem. By blending creativity with cutting-edge innovations—from AI to robotics, IoT, and beyond—the lab explores new possibilities to shape future interactions, creating experiences that are both forward-thinking and deeply human-centered.
Design
Ground-up and new feature design for products that are emerging tech native–and those that want to expand their reach through new interactions
Research
Understanding what people and want and need in a changing technological world
Build-to-think
Proof-of-concept ideation and development to understand and derisk technical possibilities
Advisory
Executive advisory briefings, keeping you up to date with opportunities in the market
Org change
L&D that empowers your organization to unlock the power of new technologies, supporting culture change
Production builds
Design systems and product builds
Going after a more courageous future? Let's design it together.
Some of our work
Some of our thinking
Check out IDEO Edges, the Wild West of our thinking, prototyping, philosophizing, and general emerging tech tinkering.