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Point of View • By Harmonie Coleman

On community

An ode to community, co-design, and Sharon Louise Pinkston.

Insight

On Gender, Identity & Intersectionality

A human perspective on exploring the potential of gender x design.

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Care as Community

Building a childcare system that works for all takes a lot of brave, radical, and committed people.

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Let's Kit This Sh*t!

Democratizing design deliverables is the new pink.

Insight

Gender Mainstreaming + HCD Bring Creative Solutions for Gender Equality

Paving pathways to equity.

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The Material Effects of Stories

How narratives can open up new ways of seeing and doing

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Q&A: A Playful Tool to Design More Gender Inclusive Programs

How might we create solutions that address people’s overlapping identities?

Publication

IDEO.org's 10 Year Impact Report

Celebrating 10 Years of Impact at IDEO.org

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Five Lessons From Leading IDEO.org

CEO Jocelyn Wyatt reflects on valuable lessons she learned on the job.

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Visions for the Future of Child Care in the U.S

What will child care look like in the year 2030?

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Q&A with Femme Fellowship Coordinator Christabel Netondo

On codesigning with young women and girls

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Beauty Is a Tool for Social Transformation

Reflecting on the role beauty can play when democratized and wielded for good.

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Dear Black Designer: May You Choose the Path of Greatest Glory

An open letter to fellow creatives

How Medical Professionals, Scholars, and Activists Want to Change the Health System

What does health equity mean to you?

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Challenging Our Idea of a ‘Successful’ Campaign

Designing for customization, decentralization, and ownership.

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9 Typefaces Designed by Women

How to support women in design well beyond Women’s History Month

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Five Moments to Build Women’s Financial Empowerment

Boosting womens’ power by meeting them when their power is most in flux.

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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

Publication

Designing for and with Girls

A book about creating reproductive health services tailored to adolescent girls

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Dear Designer: May These Books Inspire You

A list of my all-time favorite design books

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What Would Women-First Digital Financial Services Look like?

Designing to increase women's voice, influence, and control over 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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Four Lessons from the Amplify Refugee Challenge

Design principles when developing educational programs in refugee contexts.

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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

Making Do When You Don't Know What to Make

A designer’s guide to embracing ambiguity

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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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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.

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Meet Monique: Divine Diva and Teen Connector

An interview with a Diva educating Zambian girls about contraception

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Shit, Sex, & Money

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

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Documenting Optimism

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

Designing for Safer Sex

Creating responsive solutions inspired by teens' real lives.

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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

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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

Publication

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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When Physical Met Digital in the Fields of Myanmar

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

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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

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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

Publication

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

Point of View

Five Wins and Five Fails at IDEO.org

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

Point of View

What to Expect When You’re Expecting, in Ethiopia

Designing support for prospective mothers in Addis Ababa

Publication

Impact: A Design Perspective

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

"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

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

by IDEO.org August 2015

Our mission is to design a more just and inclusive world.

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