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Bringing contractors into the fold at an IDEO food eventIn April, I wrote a piece called “Designing a Freelance Life.” The post received nearly 200 comments.

Photo by Ali Guichard / IDEOMany people think of business travel as a chore.

Illustration by Beau Bergeron / IDEOWe don’t have many rules at IDEO, but we do have some cultural values that we take seriously because we feel they make our teams more effective.

IDEO Chicago's roof garden, and some of its bountynI love to cook almost as much as I love to eat.

Roshi Givechi is a calm, cool, design director and associate partner at IDEO.

According to a UN report on aging, the world’s population is aging at an unprecedented rate.

Part of maintaining a thriving creative culture is giving people time and permission to play.

Here’s the commencement speech I gave at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Information in 2010.

Now that government data is becoming more readily available, there are lots of interesting uses.

Last month I had the good fortune to join Yves Behar, founder of fuseproject, in conversation at the Commonwealth Club for a wide-ranging discussion about how design thinking can help leaders collaborate and tackle the world’s smallest and greatest problems.