January 12, 2009
IDEO'er Jeff Chapin is heading off on sabbatical to work with IDE (International Development Enterprises) on a low cost latrine. Jeff will be away for the next three months working in Cambodia and will be blogging about the experience. This might be a good chance to follow along as a designer gets i...
December 5, 2008
A team at IDEO led by Tatyana Mamout and Jessica Hastings has been working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently to develop a toolkit to help NGO's apply human centered design methodologies to the work they do with small holder farmers. IDE, one of the NGO's supported by Gates, colla...
October 31, 2008
It has been very gratifying to see the considered comments that have followed some of my posts. I am delighted to see a conversation going on about many of these topics. My approach has been to just let them run rather than making any attempt to moderate or direct. This time however I was so struck ...
October 3, 2008
One of the workshops I was involved in at Summer Davos was on aging. I was quite shocked by some of the data that the World Economic Forum had printed in a report that was released at the session. While I was well aware that the western nations, along with Japan, are experiencing a rapid aging of th...
August 12, 2008
It is great to see more application of design thinking in the social sector. Organizations such as Tim Prestero’s Design That Matters and Cameron Sinclair’s Architecture for Humanity are encouraging designers to engage with social issues. At the same time we are seeing foundations such as Rockefelle...