IDEO
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | (1991) |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, United States |
| Key people | Tim Brown, CEO Tom Kelley, General manager David Kelley Bill Moggridge Mike Nuttall |
| Employees | 550 (2008) |
| Website | www.ideo.com/ |
IDEO is a design and innovation consultancy based in Palo Alto, California, United States[1] with other offices in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Boston, London, Munich and Shanghai. The company helps design products, services, environments, and digital experiences.[1] Additionally, the company has become increasingly involved in management consulting.[2]
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).[3] Office-furniture maker Steelcase owns a majority stake in the firm, which operates as an independent unit.[2] The founders of the predecessor companies are still involved in the firm. The current CEO is Tim Brown.
The firm employs approximately 550 people in the disciplines of Human factors, Mechanical, Electrical and Software Engineering, Industrial Design, and Interaction Design.[4] IDEO has worked on thousands of projects for a large number 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) included Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Microsoft, Eli Lilly, and Steelcase.
In 1999, the firm was the subject of the "Deep Dive" episode of ABC's Nightline; they redesigned a shopping cart in five days.[5] In 2001, IDEO's general manager Tom Kelley wrote 'The Art of Innovation,' and more recently, 'The Ten Faces of Innovation.'
IDEO has won more of the BusinessWeek/IDSA Industrial Design Excellence Awards than any other firm. [6] IDEO has been ranked in the top 25 most innovative companies by BusinessWeek and does consulting work for the other 24 companies in the top 25. [7]
[edit] References
- ^ a b IDEO Inc Private Company Information
- ^ a b Nussbaum, Bruce (2004-05-17). "The Power of Design". Business Week. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_20/b3883001_mz001.htm. Retrieved on 2006-12-19.
- ^ International Directory of Company Histories
- ^ IDEO Fact Sheet
- ^ "IDEO Shopping Trolley"
- ^ IDEO's IDEA awards
- ^ IDEO Makes The TOP 25 Global Innovators--Here's Why.
[edit] See also
- Brainstorming
- Design management
- Design methods
- Design thinking
- Ethnography
- Human factors
- Innovation
- Industrial design
- Interaction design
- User centered design
- User experience
