How We Make It
Stories that dive deep on the technical stuff—building, prototyping, experimenting, and exploring.
IDEO Labs is now part of the Octopus, IDEO's design blog. You'll find Labs stories, both new and old, on this page—scroll down for more.
BLOGDave Vondle & Chris Kucharczyk
Use These ‘Dummy Numbers’ When Prototyping With Data
BLOGDave Vondle
Designing a Video Game on a Very, Very Small Scale
BLOGBrian Lange
Inviting Algorithms to the Design Team
BLOGGabriel Mugar
Why It's Important to Say Please and Thank You to Robots
BLOGMarta Soto
Training a Computer to Find Shapes in the Clouds
BLOGReid Williams
What a Computer Learns From Watching Hours of Cartoons
BLOGDave Vondle
Tribute to Bill Moggridge: GRiD Laptop For Sharing Stories
BLOGEd White & Miha Feus & Siri Johansson
Beachsand and the Talking Bell
BLOGSara Breselor
A Programming Language That Speaks to Designers
BLOGBarry Lachapelle
Just Skeu It
BLOGTasos Karahalios
Designing a Kitchen-Leftovers Spy Cam
BLOGBurton Rast
The Best Way to Complain is to Make Things
BLOGBradley Simpson
How We Did It: Project Edison
BLOGMark Harrison
My Four All-Time Favorite Workarounds
BLOGJason Cohn
Information Overload
BLOGHailei Wang
Painting with Code
BLOGChris Milne
How to Make a Fauxtobooth
BLOGBradley Simpson
Save the City, Stop the Muenster
BLOGRob Rehrig
How to Hack Your Next Circuit Board Project
BLOGSara Breselor
Veggie Vision: Designing the Kitchen of the Future
BLOGSara Breselor
Dispatch from the Toy Lab: Monster Moves
BLOGNikolay Vladimirov
Build Your Own Light Pipe
BLOGGarrett Winther & Travis Lee
Building the Pong-a-Tron
BLOGDaniel Tauber
Could AI Replace Design Researchers?
BLOGRob Rehrig
Designing for DEF CON
BLOGElise Craig
Catching Ghosts
BLOGJavier Soto Morras
Creating a Customized VR Experience
BLOGMatt Cooper-Wright
Welcoming Bots to the Design Team
BLOGJoerg Student
Designing for Burning Man: the Shrumen Lumen
BLOGBarry Lachapelle
When Physical Met Digital in the Fields of Myanmar
BLOGAlex Staudt
How We Did It: GIF Dance Party
BLOGRob Rehrig
How to Hack a Furby
BLOGElias Thaddäus Pfuner
Using Code and Wood to Make Data Tangible
BLOGDave Vondle