IDEO is a design consultancy based in Palo Alto, California, with other offices in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, London, Munich and Shanghai. The company is focused on helping its clients innovate. This is manifested through the design of products, services, environments, and digital experiences. Design, usually considered in the context of the applied arts, engineering, architecture, and other such creative endeavours, is used as both a noun and a verb. ... Location of Palo Alto within Santa Clara County, California. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, The City of Big Shoulders The 312 Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook Incorporated March 4, 1837 Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of the United Kingdom and the largest city of England (strangely, England has no constitutional existence within the United Kingdom, and therefore cannot be said to have a capital). ... Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich: St. ... Shanghai (Chinese: ; pinyin:  ; Shanghainese: ), situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta in East China, is the largest city of the Peoples Republic of China and the eighth largest in the world. ...

IDEO was formed in 1991 by a merger of three established design firms: David Kelley Design (founded by David Kelley, who is also a professor at Stanford University), ID Two (founded by Britain's Bill Moggridge), and Matrix Product Design (founded by Mike Nuttall, also from Britain). Office-furniture maker Steelcase owns a majority stake in the firm, which operates as an independent unit[1]. The founders of two of the three predecessor companies are still involved in the firm. The current CEO is Tim Brown. The phrase mergers and acquisitions or M&A refers to the aspect of corporate finance strategy and management dealing with the merging and acquiring of different companies as well as assets. ... Stanford redirects here. ... Bill Moggridge is co-founder of the Silicon Valley_based design firm IDEO. He helped design the first laptop computer, the GRiD compass. ... Steelcase (NYSE: SCS) is an international office furniture company. ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ...

The firm employs approximately 500 people in the disciplines of Human factors, Mechanical, Electrical and Software Engineering, Industrial Design, and Interaction Design. IDEO is active in many fields of design. It has worked on thousands of projects for a myriad of clients in the consumer, computer, medical, furniture, toy, office and automotive industries. Notable examples are Apple's first mouse, Microsoft's second mouse, the Palm V PDA, and Steelcase's Leap chair. Major clients (as of 2004) include Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Microsoft, Eli Lilly, and Steelcase. Human factors is an umbrella term for several areas of research that include human performance, technology, design, and human-computer interaction. ... Mechanical engineers design and build engines and power plants. ... Electrical Engineers design power systems… … and complex electronic circuits. ... Software Engineering (SE) is the design, development, and documentation of software by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, engineering, application domains, interface design, digital asset management and other fields. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The first computer mouse In the context of computing, a mouse (plural (generally): mice, also mouses) consists of a hand-held pointing device, designed to sit under one hand of the user and to detect movement relative to its two-dimensional supporting surface. ... Palm V is a handheld computer which features a 160 x 160 monochrome screen, 2 mb of memory, backlight, IR Beam capabilty, 16 MHZ Dragonball chip, and Palm OS 3. ... palmOne Tungsten T5 (CDAs) are handheld devices that were originally designed as personal organizers, but became much more versatile over the years. ... Procter & Gamble Co. ... PepsiCo, Inc. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) is a global pharmaceutical company and one of the worlds largest corporations. ...

In 1999, the firm was the subject of the "Deep Dive" episode of ABC's Nightline, as they redesigned a shopping cart in five days. In 2001, IDEO's general manager Tom Kelley wrote 'The Art of Innovation,' and more recently, 'The Ten Faces of Innovation.' The Art of Innovation is a book on design written by Tom Kelley in 2001. ...

IDEO has won more of the BusinessWeek/Industrial Designers Society of America Industrial Design Excellence Awards than any other firm. BusinessWeek is a business magazine published by McGraw-Hill. ... Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) is an organisation of professional industrial designers in the United States. ...

References

• Nussbaum, Bruce. "The Power of Design", Business Week, 2004-5-17. Retrieved on 2006-12-19.

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External links

• IDEO web site
• Podcast interview with IDEO founder David Kelley (from iinnovate)
• Darwin Magazine's article on IDEO

Similar firms

• Cesaroni Design
• Design Continuum
• Frog Design
• Sparkfactor Design

Cesaroni Design Associates is a design consultancy based in Chicago, Il. ... Design Continuum is an international design firm specializing in product design, brand, and strategy development. ... frog design is an internationally renowned creative consultancy. ... Sparkfactor Design Product design firm founded in 2001 by 3 graduates of the Stanford Product Design Masters program. ...

Also

• design thinking

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