In this podcast takeover series, Jake Knapp, designer and author of Make Time and the New York Times bestseller Sprint, shares quick tips to help you optimize your energy, focus, and time. Part 1 covers how to choose a highlight for your day. Check out our page to listen to the full interview with Jake and hear more about how he started his journey toward productivity and mindfulness and lessons from his experience designing products at Google. Download the free Make Time poster we created with ...
Apr 26, 2019•4 min
Daniel Coyle chats with IDEO U Managing Director Coe Leta Stafford about his newest book, The Culture Code, three skills that the most successful teams have in common, and how high performing teams react to tension differently. Get tips and techniques for guiding teams through creative collaboration by embracing diverse perspectives and tension in our 5-week online course Cultivating Creative Collaboration: https://ideo.to/faNcXN
Apr 05, 2019•39 min
[Bonus Episode] In this Office Hours edition of our Creative Confidence Series, Jane Fulton Suri, IDEO Partner Emeritus and Executive Design Director, chats with IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard and answers questions from our community on design research, empathy, and observation. Check out their full conversation at ideou.com/podcast to hear more about Jane’s experience over her 30-year career at IDEO and in design research.
Mar 29, 2019•12 min
Jake Knapp has spent years figuring out how to prioritize the things that matter in an increasingly distracting world. In this episode of our Creative Confidence Podcast, Jake, the author of Make Time and the New York Times bestseller Sprint, shares the methods he has developed to find focus in daily life, opening up the opportunity to have more impact at work and at home. He shares how he started his journey toward productivity and mindfulness, lessons from his experience designing products at ...
Mar 15, 2019•32 min
“If you’re human, you’re creative.” —Warren Berger, Innovation Expert & Author Innovation expert and author Warren Berger has spent years studying how questions can transform our business and personal lives and tap into our creative potential. In this episode of our Creative Confidence Series, he shares insights from his new book, The Book of Beautiful Questions, featuring hundreds of big and small questions that harness the magic of inquiry to tackle challenges we all face—at work, in our r...
Mar 04, 2019•43 min
Chris Flink, executive director of the Exploratorium, former IDEO partner, and a founding faculty member of Stanford University’s d.school talks to IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard about the evolution of the museum over 50 years, how they’ve expanded their reach globally, and how they cultivate creativity with their visitors, the broader community, and within their own organization. Want to learn more about fostering a creative culture and inspiring others? Check out our Leading for Creativity o...
Feb 15, 2019•41 min
In this episode of our Creative Confidence Series, Jane Fulton Suri, IDEO Partner Emeritus and Executive Design Director, and Dean of IDEO U Suzanne Gibbs Howard reflect on the evolution of empathy in design during Jane’s 30-year career at IDEO and why bringing curiosity into your work takes courage. To learn more about human-centered design and methods for surfacing insights, check out Jane’s online course Insights for Innovation: https://ideo.to/drQaya
Feb 08, 2019•41 min
In our most recent Creative Confidence Series chat, David Kelley, founder of IDEO and the Stanford d.school, and IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard sat down to discuss the core abilities of the most successful design thinking practitioners and personal stories and learnings from David’s friendships with several of today’s most innovative CEOs and leaders. Hear from more innovative leaders on the IDEO U podcast. Learn more about building the skills and abilities to deepen your design thinking pract...
Feb 06, 2019•43 min
In a special episode of our Creative Confidence Series podcast, IDEO U co-managing directors Suzanne Gibbs Howard and Coe Leta Stafford answered questions from our community of learners on how to overcome barriers to creativity at work with tactical examples, stories, and tips. For more tips on activating creativity within yourself and others, check out our on-demand class, Unlocking Creativity: https://ideo.to/KXWA1w
Dec 28, 2018•36 min
Chris Waugh, Chief Innovation Officer at Sutter Health, and Suz sat down to discuss how service design can radically and rapidly change the ways healthcare is delivered, making it more personalized and a better experience for patients. Interested in learning more about journey mapping and designing innovative experiences? Learn more about our Human-Centered Service Design course: https://ideo.to/service-design
Dec 18, 2018•47 min
Jocelyn Wyatt, Chief Executive Officer of IDEO.org, and Dean of IDEO U Suzanne Gibbs Howard as discussed the unique challenges of designing for the social sector and how to apply advanced design thinking principles to manage multiple stakeholders and solve for complex issues. To go deeper with the topics from this conversation, explore the Advanced Design Thinking Certificate: https://ideo.to/tlTGrv
Nov 19, 2018•40 min
In our latest Creative Confidence Series chat, David Aycan, IDEO Products Managing Director, and IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard sat down to discuss how to effectively design for and implement change and ways to measure the impact of creativity in an organization. Looking to learn more about purpose or dive deeper on bringing creativity to your team or company? Join our upcoming Designing for Change course or Power of Purpose on-demand class: https://ideo.to/ewxLRM
Nov 10, 2018•37 min
In our most recent Creative Confidence Series chat, Charles Hayes, Executive Managing Director of IDEO Asia, and IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard discussed creative leadership and a changing culture of innovation in China. If you’re interested in going deeper into case studies of creative leadership across the globe and learning IDEO’s tools and mindsets for creative leadership, join our upcoming Leading for Creativity course: https://ideo.to/LUwedO
Nov 01, 2018•30 min
Keith Yamashita, SYPartners Chairman and Founder and instructor for our newest class From Superpowers to Great Teams, sat down with IDEO U Managing Director Coe Leta Stafford to discuss creative leadership and how great teams are built on a foundation of diversity, collaboration, trust, and self-awareness. To learn more about building diverse, collaborative, and effective teams, check out our new From Superpowers to Great Teams on-demand online class: https://ideo.to/3pey83
Oct 16, 2018•30 min
In our latest Creative Confidence Series Chat, Suzanne Gibbs Howard, Dean of IDEO U, chatted with Mathew Chow, Director of Organizational Design at IDEO San Francisco, about prototyping organizational change. Mathew Chow is one of IDEO’s first formal organizational designers, helping clients create and define the values, incentives, rituals, teams, and spaces that drive their culture and behavior. It’s a process that he says starts with understanding the human needs at an organization, and learn...
Sep 20, 2018•40 min
In our most recent Creative Confidence Series chat, IDEO managing director and Human-Centered Service Design instructor Melanie Bell-Mayeda and IDEO U’s Coe Leta Stafford shared stories and tips about how to use service design to bring more meaningful experiences to customers and organizations. Melanie is a Partner and Managing Director at IDEO San Francisco. She’s responsible for helping lead the firm's design for change work, which focuses on helping organizations and leaders realize their cre...
Sep 09, 2018•26 min
Suz sat down with Brynn Harrington, director of People Growth at Facebook, to discuss the question, what’s truly motivating to people in the modern workplace? They also explored the topics of a recent Harvard Business Review article Brynn co-authored: The 3 Things Employees Really Want: Career, Community, Cause.
Aug 23, 2018•26 min
In our most recent Creative Confidence Series chat, IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard sat down with IDEO CEO Tim Brown for a conversation on Tim’s evolving thoughts on creative leadership and his focus on asking better questions. Learn the skills and mindsets of creative leadership from CEO of IDEO Tim Brown in his online course Leading for Creativity: ideo.to/sPBfy4
Aug 03, 2018•24 min
Teachers are the innovators education has been waiting for, and design thinking can help them activate their own creativity and solve the biggest challenges in education today. In our most recent Creative Confidence Series chat, Coe sat down with with Sandy Speicher, Managing Director of IDEO’s education practice and a strategic adviser to the K-12 Lab Network at the Stanford d.school, to discuss design thinking in education and how teachers can be powerful change agents for schools and educatio...
Jul 25, 2018•28 min
In our most recent Creative Confidence Series chat, Coe sat down with IDEO Play Lab founder Brendan Boyle and Suzanne Gibbs Howard, Dean of IDEO U, to talk about the importance of creativity, and exercises that can help you tap into it. Our new Unlocking Creativity class has 11 hands-on activities to help you tap into the creative potential of your team, break past creative blocks, and advance new ideas. Learn more: http://ideo.to/PSt47o
Jun 25, 2018•43 min
At IDEO, we believe that you can design the parts of a business just like you can any product, service, or brand. As Amy points out, it’s about realizing that it’s not just product design that makes a company successful in the market—it’s about the business model, the revenue model, the operations, the strategy, and even the IT. It’s about blending the rigor of traditional business strategies and tools with design, all in the service of meeting a human need. Learn how to apply the skills and min...
May 23, 2018•47 min
IDEO Partner Luis Cilimingras and IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard discussed how technological and cultural shifts are affecting business in Latin America, and shared tips and tricks for implementing design thinking from IDEO U alums and practitioners working in the region. Interested in learning the foundational methods and mindsets of design thinking and creating a shared language among your team? Find out more about our introductory Hello Design Thinking class, launching soon in Spanish: http...
May 18, 2018•45 min
Storytelling for Influence Instructor and IDEO Design Director Jenn Maer and IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard discussed the tools and mindsets that can help you become a master storyteller, prototype your story, and bring your audience along on an emotional journey. Dive in deeper and learn more from Jenn Maer in our online Storytelling for Influence course: http://ideo.to/RLx5VL
Apr 30, 2018•35 min
Owen Rogers works with companies on some of their biggest existential challenges. In this Creative Confidence Series episode, we chat with Owen, IDEO Partner and Senior Design Lead, about the human-centered approach to creating sustainable change within organizations and his tips for empowering and developing leaders. To learn more about creating change within your team and organization, enroll in our online course Designing for Change: http://ideo.to/PlIsI4
Mar 01, 2018•43 min
Your Superpower is your contribution, the role that you’re put on this Earth to fill. It’s what you do better than anyone else. Tapping into it will not only help your team, but you’ll find your work more satisfying, too. Here's the full recap: http://ideo.to/xYVsmT
Feb 09, 2018•40 min
In the latest Creative Confidence Series chat, Lynda Deakin, Managing Director of IDEO’s Design for Food studio, joined Suz to chat about ways design can enable system-wide change in the food industry. As Lynda answered live questions from our community, she touched on themes from food waste to the changing retail environment, to why it’s important to work with big food companies.
Feb 01, 2018•43 min
Eric and Suz chat about how to help your company change mindsets and become more experimental, lean, and accountable. Eric's observation is that these days big companies want to be startups and startups want to be big companies. But somewhere along the way, as any organization grows, it gets mired in bureaucracy that’s resistant to innovation. This is because they’re following a dated blueprint for doing business, which hasn’t changed much in 100 years.
Jan 16, 2018•48 min
We sat down with CoLab’s Joe Gerber and Gavin McDermott to talk about the distributed web and blockchains and why it's important to experiment with this emerging technology. Many people see blockchain technology as bitcoin, but as Joe and Gavin discuss, bitcoin is just the tip of the spear and one small piece of a larger movement of blockchain technology and the distributed web.
Dec 29, 2017•47 min
How do you prototype designing something that isn’t tangible, like a service? In this Creative Confidence Series webcast, IDEO Partner and Managing Director Ilya Prokopoff and IDEO U Managing Director Suzanne Gibbs Howard will guide us through their process for service design prototyping, share examples of successful past service design prototypes, and discuss how these prototypes can often lead to increased clarity and confidence behind ideas. Read more: http://ideo.to/PSxf75
Dec 08, 2017•29 min
We spoke with Paul about what he sees as cornerstones of creative leadership, how to catalyze people toward action, and his no fear attitude toward delving into the void—aka darker more challenging topics like death and aging.
Oct 25, 2017•43 min
