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- BLOGWORDS BY Jordan Cisneros (She, They)
Inside Our Effort to Make Design Careers More Accessible
IDEO and RepresentEd share an eagerness to keep growing and expanding our fellowship program for underrepresented young designers
- BLOGWORDS BY Lauren Collins
Why You Should Treat Your DEI Data With Rigor and Care
How do you measure how diverse or inclusive your workforce is? And—perhaps even more importantly—what should you do with that DEI data once you have it?
- BLOGWORDS BY Andrew Stewart
How Curated Clutter Makes This Designer’s Home Inspiring
In our work-from-home times, it’s a different way to think about your space
- BLOGWORDS BY Luca Ponticelli
Letting Go of Ego Helped This Designer Create a Transformational Brand
Luca talks with IDEO about his time at D-Ford
- BLOGWORDS BY Tomoya Mori & Keren Wong & Cory Seeger
What Drinking Coffee Can Teach Us About Designing the Future of Space Travel
3 Principles For Reimagining Everyday Experiences For Zero Gravity
- BLOGWORDS BY Jeff Kessler & Carlos Montalván
Business Needs Better Listeners. Here's a Plan.
Inspire Your Team With An Immersive Experience About Active Listening
- BLOGWORDS BY Wenting Guo
What Wandering Can Teach Us About Designing New Spaces
5 design lessons from studying the intentional unpredictability of wandering
- BLOGWORDS BY Annette Ferrara & Katie Beach
How Workplace Rituals Can Strengthen Connection in a Virtual Community
Embracing constraints and designing for serendipity can create the conditions for innovation, trust and collaboration.
- BLOGWORDS BY Ali Cottong
Creative Visions From Asian and Pacific Islander Americans We Admire
In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in the U.S., we're sharing reflections from some of the incredible creatives who continue to inspire us
- BLOGWORDS BY Ali Cottong
Widening the Pathway to a Career in Design
A new fellowship program for underrepresented young designers
- BLOGWORDS BY Ali Cottong
These Two Designers Published a Visual Guide to Gender Fluidity
It’s about more than bathrooms and pronouns, but the freedom to choose how to identify
- BLOGWORDS BY Michael Hendrix
The Line Between Work and Play is Garbage
What rock stars have taught me about my job
- BLOGWORDS BY Ali Cottong
Why Joy Still Matters and How to Spark It (One Year Into the Pandemic)
How IDEOers across the globe are finding ways to build joy into their days during the pandemic
- BLOGWORDS BY Ali Cottong
Queer Designers Share Their Vision for the Future of Design
IDEO designers discuss how they bring their LGBTQIA identities to their work.
- BLOGWORDS BY English Taylor
Why Poetry Belongs in Business
Using compact language to explore the many dimensions of love, hope, suffering, and belief
- BLOGWORDS BY Shoshana Berger
Artist George McCalman on Black History, Creative Blocks, and the Luxury of Hope
"It's a gift you can send to your slightly racist cousin, your republican father, and your apathetic aunt...and also those who don’t care about Black history."
- BLOGWORDS BY Jayme Brown
Our Top 10 Stories of 2020
The top stories you read and shared most this year
- BLOGWORDS BY Daisuke Yukita
How to Get Free and Feel Inspired When Workshops Are Remote
Four ways to make your virtual workshops more effective
