Notes from the Edge of Design

5 Reasons Why Financial Services Needs Design

At IDEO.org, we’ve been working on financial innovation for the poor. More than…

Learning to Be Inconspicuous

Some thoughts on the first day of field research from a business designer…

Embracing Ambiguity to Deliver Pediatric Care in Rural Nepal

Our work with IDEO.org

Five Wins and Five Fails at IDEO.org

Good design counts only if it’s integrated into people’s lives…

Impact: A Design Perspective

As a mission-driven design organization, IDEO.org sits at a pretty unique intersection of the design world…

Dispelling the Poverty Monster

I was an hour and half outside of Kisumu, Kenya, talking to 130 young men at their school when I heard…

Start with the Soil

“It starts with good soil”, was what I heard from a farmer standing in intense heat, deep in the dry zone of northern…

Field Notes

Memories and experiences from a year at IDEO.org