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.
Big Conversations
My colleagues in London have started an experiment on Facebook called Big Conversations.
read moreDesign thinking in Dubai
Reflecting on my recent attendance at the WEF Global Agenda Council summit in Dubai, it is clear that the depth of the current crisis is unprecedented and that doing 'more of the same' will not be enough.
read moreCredit crunch part 2 - it's really a resource crunch
It has been very gratifying to see the considered comments that have followed some of my posts.
read moreAnalytics and inspiration
Geoffrey Moore (of Crossing the Chasm and Dealing With Darwin fame) and I spent yesterday speaking with a large group of analytics folks brought together by analytics software company SAS.
read moreDesign thinking in the credit crunch
I met up with old friend and design thinking colleague Colin Burns last night.
read moreExperimentation
I spent Friday with a great group of people thinking about experimentation.
read moreDesign thinking in the New York Times
Janet Rae-Dupree wrote about design thinking in the business section of the New York Times this weekend.
read moreDesign for Aging
One of the workshops I was involved in at Summer Davos was on aging.
read moreDesigning data
I have just been given a fabulous new book created by a recent arrival at IDEO, Ferdi van Heerden for publishers Gestalten.
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