Blog
From 2008-2018, designthinking.ideo.com was the home of IDEO's design thinking blog, written by our former CEO and current Executive Chair of IDEO, Tim Brown. This is an archive of his thoughts. You can read Tim's more current work on his LinkedIn page. You can also visit IDEO's Blog, The Octopus, here.
Designing a Freelance Life Part 1: The Brief
A recent article on the freelance workplace refers to an Intuit study that predicts 40% of the workforce will be freelance by 2020.
read moreThe Power of the Powers of Ten
One of my all time favorite design films is Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames.
read moreInspiration for Innovators: OpenIDEO and Grameen
In 2011, OpenIDEO launched a social business challenge focused on improving the lives of people living in places like Caldas, Colombia, where one in four people live in extreme poverty.
read moreFilling Africa Up
Design is at its most powerful when it helps us take a complex, hard to imagine problem, and makes it simple. Water access in Africa is really complex, but the image of 'filling Africa up' with irrigation is very simple.
read moreDo Utility Apps Really Make Our Lives Simpler?
I have been wondering about the app economy recently.
read moreA Lesson in Empathy
My friend Delos “Toby” Cosgrove is a fellow blogger for LinkedIn.
read moreKnight News Challenge: Open Government
How might we improve the way citizens and governments interact?nThis is the question posed by the current Knight News Challenge, a media innovation contest open to participants anywhere in the world.
read moreTED Prize Winner: The School In the Cloud
Education has been a growing theme at TED.
read moreBest Advice: The Ten Day Rule
I received one of my most valuable and sustaining pieces of advice from my mentorBill Moggridge soon after I started working with him in the late 1980's.
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