QUE eReader [link]

Ford Sync [video move to 23:57 on the timeline ]

Sam and Dave Save the World from IDEO on Vimeo.

Proactive from IDEO on Vimeo.

Our Invitation To You from IDEO on Vimeo.

"To learn how cutting-edge firms hire, facilitate communication between, and retain employees, Director Berry recently met with Facebook, Google and design firm Ideo on a recent trip to California, also touring each facility to see how they’re laid out in the hope of replicating some of that magic in a federal setting."

Wired Magazine, August 31, 2009.

This is me using the Tenori on :)

I just came back from London UK where I have been to participate at the Sketching in Hardware 2009 conference.

This year's theme was Incentives. The way I interpreted it was that we should look back on what we have accomplished so far in prototyping or sketching using electronic toolkits and what's next. On my presentation I focused on the latter.

I could go on forever telling about it. I'm pretty sure others will cover it from different perspectives as well. I think one recurrent theme that I touched on and others as well, including my IDEO colleague Dave Vondle was Open Innovation and how to involve an increasing number of users in design projects from the beginning.

 My presentation was early in the morning on Saturday (which prevented me to drink on Friday). :-/

This is the Bioduino, a proposed toolkit focused on collecting biometric data and presentation the values in a way that designer can easily use through Processing or AS to prototype new experiences like the ones required on connect health projects.

VisionSpring prototyping eye camps for children in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Open-Source Innovation: IDEO's Human-Centered Design Toolkit

As designers working to improve the quality of life in other countries, the firm IDEO has spent more than 10 years creating a methodology focused on designing for the user. And now, IDEO wants to give all of that methodology away. A series of PDFs that are free to download, theHuman-Centered Design Toolkithopes to empower organizations and design firms by giving them their field-tested tools for social impact in a way that focuses more on sharing information than authorship.

Source:http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/alissa-walker/designerati/human-centered-design-toolkit-shares-information

http://patterns.ideo.com/

IDEO 2009

"We partnered with International Development Enterprises (IDE), Heifer International, ICRW, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create a toolkit for applying Human-Centered Design to inspire new solutions to difficult challenges within communities of need.

Human-Centered Design is a process used for decades to create new solutions for companies and organizations. Human-Centered Design can help you enhance the lives of people. This process has been specially-adapted for organizations like yours that work with people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Human-Centered Design (HCD) will help you hear people's needs in new ways, create innovative solutions to meet these needs, and deliver solutions with financial sustainability in mind".

More: http://www.ideo.com/work/item/human-centered-design-toolkit/