Topic: International Development Enterprises

Live from Pop!Tech: Knowing and Respecting Your Customers

Sarah Joseph, the creator and editor of Emel, a Muslim lifestyle magazine, shared a telling story in her presentation Dialogs With/In Islam this afternoon. She showed a slide for a commercial, what appeared to be a straightforward ad ...READ»

Live from Pop!Tech: My Kind of Dinner Party

The beauty of this conference is the range of speakers. It's the sort of eclectic gathering that would make for a helluva dinner party. At one end of the table you'd have Paul Potak asking, "Why is it that 90 percent of designers ...READ»

A "Don't Bother" List Could Be Your Winning Strategy

I’m reading one of the most lucid business books I’ve come across in quite some time. It’s Out of Poverty by Paul Polak, founder of International Development Enterprises. In it, Polak outlines a number of compelling reasons ...READ»

Design for the Other 90%

The vast majority of designers put their talent to where the money is: crafting products and services that aim to beguile the richest 10% of the world's population. Nothing wrong with making a living. But could the tens of thousands ...READ»

Open-Source Innovation: IDEO's Human-Centered Design Toolkit

A free guide to user-focused design can be applied anywhere from a for-profit design firm to an NGO working in a developing nation.READ»

• Designers Accord Case Studies