Announcing product reviews and design support for startups building on Celo — We’re excited to announce our partnership with the Celo Foundation to offer design reviews for startups building digital financial services on Celo. We want to help you build design thinking fluency, and brainstorm together on product design challenges you’re facing, to improve the overall user experience for new internet users — ultimately in service of designing web3 experiences that are inclusive, accessible and intuitive for last-mile users.

Twenty years ago, if you told people that teenagers in Iowa would be making money by “unboxing” products on Youtube, no one would have believed you. Technology has already drastically reshaped where we work, how we work and what we do — and the change is only growing. At IDEO…

A few weeks ago, one of the last Blockbusters left in America (in Sodoltka, Alaska) shut its doors for good. It joined the ranks of thousands of video stores that have closed down in the last ten years. …

How We Get to Good Ideas Faster — We’re right in the middle of our quarterly explore sprints: three day sprints designed to help us quickly express concepts use cases by building prototypes. And when we say building, we mean it — we’re creating real, working prototypes that people can touch, experience and play with, from concept to…

At IDEO coLAB, we’re spending the summer exploring what happens when connected devices can transact with humans and with one another. We’ve brought together a network of innovation leaders, students, freelancers, corporate employees and experts to build prototypes of autonomous devices, distributed organizations and peer-to-peer networks for nine weeks. …

Buying a house is tough. Coming up with enough money is a major issue, and once you do, it’s still way more complicated than you would expect. Around here, we call the number of steps needed to buy a home “the real estate monster.” We’re used to seamless, integrated and…

For many millennials, the idea of buying a home seems as outrageous as a day trip to the moon. We don’t want to give up on the American dream of the white picket fence, but we’re stuck. There’s no white space between that part of life when we have enough…

Big shifts in technology, culture, and economics are changing how people in their 20s and 30s think about where they live. The way we buy and sell homes is stuck in the 20th century. Real estate is broken, and it’s time to redesign how it works. For most of the…