Tim Brown, the CEO of the global design firm Ideo, is leaving the role after a 19-year run. He announced the move in an open letter on Ideo’s site. He will be replaced by Ideo’s Sandy Speicher, who is ...

Today, the design consultancy Ideo announced that it has acquired Datascope, a Chicago-based data science company. The acquisition is meant to help Ideo, one of the country’s most prominent firms, ...

News that Ideo, one of the world's largest and most distinguished design firms, had sold a chunk of its business and joined a creative collective caught many in the design world by surprise. "Wow, is ...

In 1980, Steve Jobs paid a visit to David Kelley and Dean Hovey’s office. The Stanford graduates had been running the Hovey-Kelley design and engineering firm in a small side street in Palo Alto, ...

When the people at global design firm IDEO want to impress new clients, they can point to four decades of disruptive innovations, like the original mouse for Apple’s Macintosh computers, or the first ...

IDEO's core competencies have historically been in the realm of tangible product development. From the first Apple mouse [1] to upright toothpaste [2], IDEO was once solely concentrated on design & ...

One of the biggest problems a large company faces is how to create and capture growth opportunities while meeting quarterly earnings expectations. It's hard to do this because start-ups view this big ...

The table — yes, the humble table — is the future of the home. That's according to Marcus Engman, Ikea's head of design. "Personally, I do believe that the table is going to be extremely important for ...

Cars might not yet drive themselves, but they already pick up plenty of our slack. Today’s models are equipped with cameras and sensors that help us parallel park, stay in our lane and brake before we ...