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IDEO (pronounced “EYE-dee-oh”) is a global design consultancy helping the world’s most audacious dreamers create braver tomorrows.

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. @FLOTUS wants to see your ideas to help students fulfill their college dreams:
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What does chocolate-making have to do with saving the planet? More than you might think. Together, IDEO and @earthshotprize created a Fellowship program and retreat to support a new generation of climate leaders. Learn more: . #earthshotprize #IDEO
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The commute of the future? @Ford + @IDEO are working on it: by @dgelles via @nytimes
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"When I started IDEO, all I really wanted to do was work with my friends."—David Kelley #NationalBestFriendsDay
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As designers, it's hard to be sure we've got the right answers—after all, our job is to help create a future that is, by definition, uncertain. So how can we get more comfortable with being uncomfortable? @martaharding shares 3 ways to navigate ambiguity:
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We stand with our Black colleagues here at IDEO, with Black communities worldwide, and with all those who are working to build a more just and equitable world. (1/4)
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"Learning isn’t about the consumption of new information. Learning is the process of using our innate abilities to construct—or create—new understandings of the world. Learning, by its very nature, is a creative act."— @sandyspeicher
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"Most people perform at their best not because they’re specialists but because their deep skill is accompanied by an intellectual curiosity that leads them to ask questions, explore, and collaborate." Why companies should hire for curiosity: @HarvardBiz
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Systemic racism is by design. Black people have lived with this reality for centuries. It should not have taken 8 minutes and 46 seconds of watching George Floyd suffer for the rest of society to awaken. (1/6)
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Prototyping on day 1 of a new project can shift the conversation from “we need to do this” to “what if we do that?”
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We are thrilled to share that @sandyspeicher will become CEO of @IDEO in August. More about the news, including the note @tceb62 shared with IDEO today, here:
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"When people gain this confidence...they actually start working on the things that are really important..."
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If innovation projects are going to succeed, they’ll need to survive a handoff from an innovation team to an execution team. Learn 3 new handoff models that can help teams stay connected through the transition: by @thejoebrown in @HarvardBiz
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3 Books to help you become a better designer: http://t.co/9psrYtWe8P http://t.co/WoNTin1jIc
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Need some creative inspiration? Try these documentaries nominated by IDEO designers: by @Devin_Peek @neilstevenson77
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A guide for seeking + sharing insights about people’s lives in an ethical way: #lbodre
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IDEO designers are always noticing the ways people unintentionally design the world around them: by @stinajonsson
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12 @IDEO designers share their favorite documentaries for creative inspiration:
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“By making mindfulness a regular part of my design practice, I’ve not only become a better designer, but hopefully a kinder, more patient, and more empathetic person.”
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"When you're approaching a new design challenge, it’s easy to bring your biases and baggage to the table. But this is the moment to stay open: The root of creativity is embracing the possibilities at your fingertips." Mindfulness practices for designers:
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"If you see your role as a list of broken things that need to be fixed, life will deliver you nothing but. But if you actively seek creativity and fun, you might just find yourself successfully in the middle of the vibrant culture you’d once wished for."
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When you don't have time to get out in the field, sometimes watching a documentary is the next best thing: #IDEOblog
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Blockchain. You’ve heard the word. Perhaps you’ve invested in a digital currency or two. But do you really know what the technology is and why it matters? @ideocolab on why designers need to be thinking about @blockchain :
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How might we enable students to design their lives and connect purpose to their education?
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"Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency." Culture change should be achieved through movements, not mandates:
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Need a break from the holiday stress? Try these meditation exercises to reawaken your creative mind: #IDEOblog
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A guide to help designers gain insights into people's lives in an ethical way:
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Executing innovative ideas requires creativity, and creativity thrives in a work environment that fits the dynamic needs of modern teams. @ideo_cd shares 5 changes you can make to your work environment to help your company become more innovative:
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Interested in today's most promising climate startups? Check out the #EarthshotPrize winners. Last week, we led a design fellowship in Windsor to set them up for success with Prince William, Tim Brown, Stuart Getty, Esha Reddy, Conor Farese, Jason Rissman.
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How can our offices provide more business value? Should your organization open an innovation lab? Can our workplace language be more human-centered? Introducing The IDEO Journal, a new digital publication exploring the intersection of design and business:
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“Culture is about creating an environment that makes it possible for people to work together to come up with innovative products and ideas.” 5 ways to jump-start your company culture: by @anetferrara
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All of #Bowie ’s hairstyles over the last 50 ys in one GIF: by @Helengreeen via @designtaxi
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"If a picture is worth 1000 words, a #prototype is worth 1000 meetings." Ancient @IDEO proverb. Learn how w/ @IDEOU :
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How might @IDEO explore sound through creative play? Try a gigantic beach ball synthesizer for size. #Moogfest2016
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Get comfortable in a room full of strangers. Try these exercises to break down barriers + uncover people's stories:
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5 improv exercises every designer should know: by several cool @IDEOers ;)
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"My basic principle about getting people together is: Talk normal. When possible, leave behind the jargon, and talk at the most normal, human way."— @f_dust via @FastCompany
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Looking for something good to watch right now? Here are some of our favorite documentaries—let us know what yours are!
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One year ago we launched The Circular Design Guide with Ellen MacArthur Foundation at @Davos . Today @ideocolab is convening partners to apply circular business models to industries in need of innovation, starting with textiles and food. Learn more:
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. @Google + @IDEO make code physical so kids can play + develop skills: #GoogleCSedu
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"Design research is like being a reporter or anthropologist or therapist—you’re given access to people’s lives that feels like a great privilege, and with that privilege comes great responsibility."
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A guide for seeking + sharing insights about people’s lives in an ethical way:
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Environments designers at @IDEO are constantly thinking about how we shape cities, and how cities shape us. Here are six ways we'd like to redesign urban life:
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What’s the best way to cultivate empathy within an organization? Have employees spend time with their customers. But @erinhenkel & @AdamMGrant take it a step further: Instead of simply getting to know the customer, become the customer. More in @HarvardBiz :
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Design thinking has the potential to “unleash people’s full creative energies, win their commitment, and radically improve processes.” @HarvardBiz shares how design thinking helps teams break free of the human biases that get in the way of innovation:
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Looking for tools, resources + platforms to unlock your creativity?
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So long dear Jim Yurchenco, engineer of the first Apple mouse, who retires this week after 37 yrs @IDEO http://t.co/O066R4qURM
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. @OpenIDEO designer @scottshigeoka thinks you should make a habit of talking to strangers—because “opportunities are everywhere if you’re always open.”
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"Once you think of yourself as a creative person, you make better decisions. If you think of yourself as creative, then you can create a new future." —David Kelley, @kelleybros #creativeconfidence
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"Employees need to know that experimentation is not only allowed, it’s actively encouraged."— @Duanebray
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Every person has a story as complex as yours. But how do you unlock those stories with a group of people you've just met? Here are 5 exercises to get you started:
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What would happen if every college in the country created a user-experience team? by @rec54 + @sandyspeicher
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Prototyping on day 1 of a new project can shift the conversation from “we need to do this” to “what if we do that?”
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“The best advice for service design prototyping, though, is the same as any other kind of design work: Do it early, do it often, and keep iterating toward the right solution.”
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In a future of VR, AR, and digital assistants, many things are possible. But what is useful and desirable? How will people integrate these technologies into their lives? via @ideo + @GooglePlayDev
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"The promise of new technology has always been to expand our abilities as humans . It’s about looking beyond what the technology itself can do, toward what it enables us to do."
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Clear the noise in your head + come back with fresh eyes—how meditation can enhance your creative mind: #IDEOblog
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With the potential to reach billions of people, designers need to start thinking about Blockchain
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IDEO designers picked their favorite podcasts for creative inspiration: #IDEOblog
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"There was no special analysis that they could have done beforehand to figure that out. No market research or benchmarking data would have suggested it. They had to build, fail, iterate, and repeat to find the answer."
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"Our job as designers is to inspire the world to tackle problems that, on the surface, seem intractable."— @tceb62
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"Opportunities are everywhere, if you're always open." Why you should make a habit of talking to strangers:
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"Inclusive, forward-thinking design doesn’t mean replicating what works well or feels right in our backyard. It means getting out there, dialing up your inner listener, and sitting down with someone completely unlike you."
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Designing interventions—or the age-old question of “Why should we change?” by @IDEO 's @ayepea via @HarvardBiz
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"It's exciting to imagine a whole new category of products that will take advantage of gesture’s subtlety, expressiveness, and speed."
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"...innovation begins simply by talking to real people, in real contexts."
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How can design help reduce the 1.3 billion tons of food humans toss out every year? @ideo has partnered with @RockefellerFdn and other organizations to build a future where food is never wasted:
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For organizations seeking to become more adaptive and innovative, culture change is often the most challenging part.
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"Creativity isn’t all about fun. Acknowledging that allows us to design better environments and processes that support the profound vulnerability necessary to develop creative solutions."— @sandyspeicher
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"The key is to design experiences around emotional value rather than rational value."— @dwbstr on emotion in AI: @qz
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Merging machine learning + human-centered design, @IDEO welcomes @DsAtweet to the family: by @DianaBudds
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. @ideo_cd identified six principles that are instrumental to an innovative, adaptive company:
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If you could redesign anything, what would you choose? @IDEO designers answer: #IDEOblog
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15 podcasts that inspire creativity, selected by @IDEO designers: #IDEOblog
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Students! Way to #ReachHigher ! Join @FLOTUS and @ReachHigher in this education movement. http://t.co/Nq6bbhzjE0
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Take a peek into @IDEO industrial designer Felicia Chiao's sketchbook—we guarantee you'll be hypnotized. #IDEOblog
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Learn to come up w/creative ideas + bring them to life in @IDEOU 's new course: http://t.co/o4OquHiF7b #IdeasToAction http://t.co/gZxp01ewHS
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Prototyping early on in the design process can spark conversations that are less about “we need to do this” and more about “what if we do that?” Here are 4 things to keep in mind when creating early prototypes:
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An idea can have everything it needs to succeed, but without a smooth handoff from the innovation team to the execution team, it can get lost in translation. @IDEO 's @thejoebrown shares 4 handoff models that can help teams stay connected: via @HarvardBiz
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This startup, 1 of 6 winners of @OpenIDEO 's $1M Circular Design Challenge, is creating edible food packaging:
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"An intersection of AI and design is in creating personalized products and services that meet people’s needs and guide them to discover and explore the world in ways they couldn’t without the technology." @IDEO 's @mstringer via @FastCoDesign
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"Don't accept done for good. And don't accept good for excellent." —Jim Yurchenco
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Good design takes risks. @ideo_cd 's research into how we might measure innovation featured in @FastCoDesign 's 10 principles of good design:
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From coming up with ideas for a family vacation to planning your next dinner party, mindmaps can be used for all sorts of problem solving. An exercise from Creative Confidence by @kelleybros :
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5 yrs of using human-centered design to improve the lives of people living in poverty—couldn't be prouder @IDEOorg !
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Today, turns 5! A look back at 5 moments that inspired us -
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Prototyping on day one of a new project can create a sense of excitement and momentum shared by you and the client, giving the team an important confidence boost.
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According to @wef , creativity is one of the key skills leaders will need to face the increasingly complex challenges the future has in store. Use these 10 exercises to build your creative confidence:
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"We don't have to teach creativity, we just have to remove the blocks." #CreativeConfidence @kelleybros @f_dust http://t.co/Z9lQ0i08Op
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. @IDEOorg shares three exercises to help designers tackle some of the world's toughest problems:
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"A leader's role is not to always have the answer, but to create the conditions for things to happen." — @_waugh /
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"More and more designers will realize their superpowers. You don’t have to have a doctor or nurse to help people. Designers are healers, too." @IDEO Cambridge's @AnnKimAnnKim , alongside @pentagram , @Microsoft , & @gensler_design , in @FastCompany :
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We are (always) thinking of the great Bill Moggridge who would have been 73 today:
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"Learning is the process of using our innate abilities to construct—or create—new understandings of the world. Learning, by its very nature, is a creative act."— @sandyspeicher
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"The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time." via @Recode http://t.co/FTKVtMiwnD
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We polled @ideo designers to find their favorite podcasts for getting into a creative mindset: #IDEOblog
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"Leaders who can embody these four roles set the culture of a design-driven organization almost by default." — @tceb62 via @linkedin
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"Even a simple project can be life-changing." In this @washingtonpost story on preparing kids for today's workforce, @IDEO partner @sandyspeicher shares how small creative projects can empower students to apply their creativity to bigger challenges:
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To-do lists are a necessary evil. 'Sprint' author + @ideo fellow @jakek built a new one to help you prioritize:
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A guide to help innovators create more elegant, effective, creative solutions for the circular economy:
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