Ask any knowledgeable person about what they think IDEO is and you’ll likely get different—albeit similar—answers: “It’s one of the original modern design firms.” “It’s a do-it-all design agency.” “It’s a problem-solving company.” Luckily for those answering, all of these are correct in their own way. But to get to the ultimate answer of who…

Although IKEA products have become synonymous with various levels of hackability (see here, here and here), the company has (unsurprisingly) been yet to celebrate the “IKEA Hack” movement under their own brand, at least until now. Back in 2013, the Swedish house wares giant started a project along with IDEO, Lund University’s School of Industrial…

In an industry dominated by the young, 91yr old Barbara Beskind is breaking the glass age-ceiling, and now works as a designer for IDEO, where according to the Wall Street Journal, Beskind walks with her custom modified ski poles from the train station to the Palo Alto-based IDEO offices. There, she shares her wealth of…

Having been the designer of the world’s first laptop computer and co-founding one of the world’s leading design firms, IDEO, Bill Moggridge’s life is as colorful as they come for those in the field of designing human experiences. After having earned an industrial design degree in 1965 from the Central School of Art and Design…