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How We Make It
Stories that dive deep on the technical stuff—building, prototyping, experimenting, and exploring.
IDEO Labs is now part of the Octopus, IDEO's design blog. You'll find Labs stories, both new and old, on this page—scroll down for more.
BlogDave Vondle & Chris Kucharczyk
Use These ‘Dummy Numbers’ When Prototyping With Data
BlogDave Vondle
Designing a Video Game on a Very, Very Small Scale
BlogBrian Lange
Inviting Algorithms to the Design Team
BlogGabriel Mugar
Why It's Important to Say Please and Thank You to Robots
BlogMarta Soto
Training a Computer to Find Shapes in the Clouds
BlogReid Williams
What a Computer Learns From Watching Hours of Cartoons
BlogSean Mulholland
How to Experiment with 360˚ Video
BlogNat Steinsultz
Why Your Office Needs a Laugh Detector
BlogJochen Weber & Tiffany Yuan & Leo Marzolf
Teaching AI to See Our Best Side
BlogSophy Lee
Design Like You Can Hear the Page
BlogAshley Holtgraver
Why I’m Building a TV For My Baby
BlogSean Mulholland
How to Make Cinemagraphs with Your iPhone
BlogDavid Rose
Why Gesture is the Next Big Thing in Design
BlogAlex Staudt
How I Taught Myself to Code in 3D
BlogRob Rehrig
How to Hack a Furby
BlogSean Mulholland
Designing the Siris and Alexas of the World
BlogElias Thaddäus Pfuner