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Following IDEO’s appearance on 60 Minutes in January, this follow up piece on CBS This Morning spotlights how we form project teams and create impact through design. The story is told through the lens of a specific design challenge: How might we encourage healthier eating habits in young children?

The Boston Globe covers Boston Beer’s quest to design the perfect can for Samuel Adams and spotlights IDEO’s involvement in the project. Read the article here.

Metropolis and Fast Company’s Co.Design celebrate IDEO designer Elger Oberwelz’s Love Letter to Node, a video and series of stills that tell a love story between two chairs and celebrates IDEO’s work with Steelcase. Happy Valentines Day!

Fast Company’s Co.Design covers Food Genius Reports, a powerful food-trends dashboard the company developed in collaboration with IDEO while they were a Startup-in-Residence.

The Wall Street Journal’s Venture Capital Dispatch blog features David Webster and his 2013 Burrill Digital Health Meeting presentation on healthy behavior and the design of mobile apps.

IDEO’s CEO and president Tim Brown reflects on his time at the 2013 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in this week’s LinkedIn post.

GigaOm on how the Sunlight Foundation and IDEO teamed up to create Sitegeist, an app that uses location-based census data to help you understand more about where you are.

In Adaptive Innovation: Launch, Learn, Repeat, Arvind Gupta explains how teams can iterate an offering, product, or business model in sync with evolving market needs and stay ahead of the competition. (View the full Winter 2013 issue of Rotman Magazine here.)

Fast Company talks to IDEO’s Albert Lee about innovating ideas. IDEO’s Dennis Boyle also talks to FastCo about the Palm V in 10 Conversations That Changed Our World.

Mayor Mike Bloomberg launches The Gap App Challenge, designed by IDEO. The New York City Department of Education approached IDEO to identify and frame a challenge for software developers to submit apps that enhance teaching and learning middle school math. Learn more about the project on the NYC government’s site and watch video coverage of the press conference.

Charlie Rose visits IDEO and interviews co-founder David Kelley in this segment of 60 Minutes. 60 Minutes also visited with Tim Brown on the future of design thinking, looked deeper at human-centered design with David in his home, and checked in with the toy lab at IDEO. View more of the 60 Minutes footage here.

The Wall Street Journal spotlights a high-end home fitness machine roundup which leads with the Allegro 2 Pilates reformer, designed by IDEO.

In the spirit of building and making, create an IDEO bot at bots.ideo.com to share with the world. Happy holidays from IDEO!

The Business Times profiles IDEO’s work with Changi General Hospital. As part of the feature, one doctor says that the redesigned Orthopaedic Clinic, which IDEO focused on, “has enabled the same number of nurses to serve a larger pool of doctors” and allowed for quicker clearing of queues in the space. Read more about Changi General Hospital’s revamped healthcare delivery system on the Business Times site.

MyFord Mobile — the smartphone app that helps electric vehicle owners learn smarter driving behaviors — won a 2013 IxDA Award in the “optimizing category.”

IDEO’s Will Carey leads off a discussion about synthetic biology on the station’s By Design show. He discusses the field of synthetic biology, and how it can be used as a material and perspective on design. Listen here.

Will Work For is a design provocation created from Collaborative Fund + IDEO’s vision for the future of work. We see the future in communities that create and support creation and in the passions of people just like you. Will Work For unveils our vision of an alternate present and the inevitable future of work.

Creative Confidence is the ability to come up with breakthrough ideas, combined with the courage to act. Tom and David Kelley expand on the concept of Creative Confidence in the latest issue of the Harvard Business Review magazine. Read ‘Reclaim Your Creative Confidence.’

Marketplace interviews Christian Palino about how IDEO’s work on the Consumer Health Insurance Enrollment Experience can help people make sense of health care exchanges under the Affordable Care Act. Listen to the piece here.

Bloomberg‘s Tech Blog reporter Mark Milan shares his experience of IDEO.org’s Sanitation Hackathon and the challenge of solving open defecation issues in Ghana. Read Bloomberg‘s Tech Blog post here.

Metropolis blogger Kevin Budelmann shares a memory of IDEO co-founder Bill Moggridge and the story of IDEO’s transformation “from product design firm to strategic design thinking juggernaut.” Read the Metropolis post here.

IDEO CEO and president Tim Brown spoke with The Wall Street Journalabout one recent IDEO project, a private school system in Peru called INNOVA Schools. For the INNOVA project, IDEO designed a curriculum, classrooms, and business model. “People are probably thinking: Those are the guys who created laptops, and you wouldn’t think they would be designing a school system,” says Tim Brown. Read The Wall Street Journal article here.

IDEO business designer Johannes Seemann bridges qualitative and quantitative research methods through an innovative approach called hybrid insights. In the latest issue of Rotman Magazine, he writes about how organizations can identify new opportunities for growth by taking a human-centered approach to market segmentation.

How might businesses rethink their physical brand retail presence in new and strategic ways? IDEO Partner Dana Cho spoke with PSFK about helping companies design and launch innovative solutions. Read the full PSFK interview here.

The AIGA’s “Justified” Awards highlight design’s process and impact. Entries were judged based on their design attributes and whether their case for effectiveness was clear, compelling and accessible. Wounded Warrior was one of 18 selected from over 400 great entries. Read the full case study here.

In China, most kitchen appliances available on the market are rooted in Western cooking practices. Fotile, based in Ningbo, China, specializes in high-end kitchen appliances designed specifically for the Chinese market. As the market leader in this space, Fotile partnered with IDEO to design a new cook top and range hood that would satisfy the unique needs of Chinese cooking culture. The result: An innovative cook top and range hood that combine form and function in beautiful, unexpected ways. The Fotile cook top and range hood take into account cultural practices and needs while also addressing the aesthetic preference of the Chinese consumer. This appliance duo eliminates the tension between the staples of Chinese cooking culture—the wok and cooking oil—and the consumer demand for modern design. The traditional Western five-burner stove is designed to support cooks in need of variable heat and numerous small pots and pans. This arrangement crowds the cooking surface and can be...

Tim Brown is one of 150 thought leaders selected for LinkedIn’s original content launch, which was recently covered in Wired, Fast Company, and All Things Digital. Read Tim’s original post in the LinkedIn series here. For more of Tim’s latest writing, follow him on LinkedIn or visit designthinking.ideo.com.

Beyond philanthropy, why should global companies invest in social impact projects in developing countries? IDEO’s CEO and President, Tim Brown, outlines five good reasons in Co.Design with Linda Tischler. Read the article here.