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Point of View • By Jocelyn Wyatt

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Work in Progress

Reshaping our priorities, culture, and definitions in order to grow.

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Celebrating Togetherness

Reminiscing on moments of community in the past year in honor of our 9th birthday.

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One Million Stories of Impact

Celebrating the impact of problem solvers who have harnessed the power of Design Kit's tools

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Five Creative Rituals to Go From Ideation to Launch

The conditions and culture that cultivate trust, collaboration, and bold decision within teams

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What Would Women-First Digital Financial Services Look Like?

Designing to increase women’s voice, influence, and control of money.

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Designing for Choice

The five key moments in a girl’s journey towards contraception

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Nine Badass Women to Know

A shout out to some of the women we’ve had the honor of working with at IDEO.org

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What Harry Potter and Miss Frizzle Taught Me about Designing for Tween Girls

Changing the mythology around puberty

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Designing for Today’s Behaviors and Tomorrow’s Potential

What I’ve learned as an interaction designer at IDEO.org

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UX Design for National Identity

How empathy for some users translates into efficiency for others

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Radical Immersion for Extreme Empathy

A personal point of view from a design researcher at IDEO.org

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The Shoulders We Stand On

Modern design, the birth of the social sector, and where we go from here.

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Designing for Resilience

Building humanitarian services that thrive and adapt

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Unlocking Creativity in the Name of Inclusion

Breaking down bias through play

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Four Lessons from the Amplify Refugee Education Challenge

Design principles when developing educational programs in refugee contexts.

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Making do when you don’t know what to make

A designer’s guide to embracing ambiguity

Press • Fast Company

At these camps, refugees can give real-time customer feedback

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What I Look For...

If you’re looking to throw your hat in for one of our open positions in New York, Nairobi, or San Francisco, read this.

Press • Fast Company

How better branding is pushing Kenyan teens to use contraception

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Meet Monique: Divine Diva and Teen Connector

An interview with a Diva educating Zambian girls about contraception

Press • The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Podcast: Putting ‘Human-Centered Design’ to Work Against Poverty

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A Taste of Home

IDEO's Designs On challenge is a speculative design exercise to imagine solutions to big, complex questions such as Citizenship.

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Projects to Programs

To have the greatest possible impact through design, IDEO.org is investing in four programmatic areas

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Sex, Shit, and Money

Jocelyn Wyatt speaks on designing through taboo at the 2016 Emerge: Consumer Financial Health Forum

Press • National Geographic

Harvesting Hope: Designing for Trust and Engagement in Eastern Congo

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IDEO.org Turns Five

On our fifth birthday, we share a quintet of inspirational moments from the first five years of IDEO.org

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The Conversation of Design

Why storytelling is essential to people, partners, and possibility

Press • Fastco Design

How Cities’ Most Underserved Neighborhoods are Making Themselves More Resilient

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Start with People, Design for Partners

A Business Designer's take on impactful partnerships

Press • Bloomberg Businessweek

How to Talk About Sex to Teens in Zambia

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Learning to Be Inconspicuous

Some thoughts on the first day of field research from John Collery, a business designer at IDEO.org

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The Field Guide

Everything you need to understand the people you're designing for, prototype your ideas, and arrive at more creative solutions

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Banish the Big Reveal

Why opening the velvet curtain and shining a light on the design process makes for better work

Press • New York Times

Board Member Pam Scott on Activist Philanthropy

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Designing Safer Sex

Creating responsive solutions inspired by teens' real lives.

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When Physical Met Digital in the Fields of Myanmar

A deep dive into why low-cost sensors can help low-income farmers

Press • SSIR

Diving In: Nonprofits, NGOs, and Design

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A Lesson in Optimism

Reflections on World Refugee Day from Amplify Program Director Shauna Carey

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Turning Maslow’s Hierarchy on Its Head

Why international development should appeal to higher-order desires

Put one idea out and people will say they love it. Put out multiple, and get richer insights from the comparison. https://t.co/N5EqkXQVxf

by IDEO.org January 2016

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Rebranding the Business of Farming

How a new perspective on an ancient occupation could give farmers a leg up

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Becoming a Moral Leader

What IDEO.org's Executive Director Jocelyn Wyatt learned from Acumen's CEO Jacqueline Novogratz

Press • Fast Company

Bringing Low-Cost Precision Agriculture to Developing Countries

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Start with the Soil

Business designer John Collery reflects not just on what sensors might do for farmers, but the stuff of farming itself

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Documenting Optimism

Photographer Chris Michel on visiting and documenting Asili in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Press • Designboom

Designer Stacy Barnes Talks to Designboom

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Insights Into Action

CGAP and IDEO.org take a long hard look at bringing human-centered design to digital financial services

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Five Reasons Why Financial Services Needs Design

Over two billion people have no access to financial tools—design can help

What does @patricemrtn listen to for a creative boost? Designers' mixtapes @invisionapp https://t.co/iUn3HLlv6S

by IDEO.org November 2015

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Five Wins and Five Fails at IDEO.org

It hasn't always gone right—here's what we've learned along the way

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What to Expect When You’re Expecting, in Ethiopia

Designing support for prospective mothers in Addis Ababa

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Impact: A Design Perspective

After four years, 64 projects, and countless prototypes, we sat down and wrote our first impact report

Press • Impact Design Hub

The Human Center of Design: In Conversation with IDEO.org’s Patrice Martin

"One of our values is optimism, believing there are solutions to difficult challenges." @jocelynw in @whartonknows https://t.co/SSEhH7KG1O

by IDEO.org March 2016

Press • The Guardian

Collaboration Not Competition: Could This Be the Future of Development?

Press • Devex

Why Human Centric Design Can Improve Foreign Aid

Press • FastCoDesign

Dynamic Duos: Acumen Fund’s Jacqueline Novogratz and IDEO.org’s Jocelyn Wyatt

“In our world of complex problems, solutions hide within what makes us human”- @IDEOorg’s #changemaker @patricemrtn at #IDSASeattle15

by IDEO.org August 2015

Press • SSIR

When Restrictions Apply: Why General Funding for Nonprofits is the Future of Innovation

Press • Fast Company

This Community-Run Business Creates A Sustainable Stream Of Food, Water, And Health

Press • FastCo Design

From Ideo.org: 3 Ways Designers Can Help Fix The Refugee Crisis

Press • Devex

Q&A: How human-centered design works at the world's largest foundation

Press • SSIR

1001 Story Times

Press • Core 77

Award: d.light A1 Runner Up Consumer Product Award

Press • Core 77

Award: Diva Centres Winner Service Design Award

Press • Devex

Out with ‘family’ planning, in with ‘future‘ planning

Press • American Banker

Can an App Help People Weather a Financial Storm?

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