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Tim Brown

CEO and President, IDEO

Tim Brown is the CEO of IDEO, an innovation and design firm. His work has appeared at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Axis Gallery in Tokyo, and the Design Museum in London. He writes about design thinking and authored Change By Design.

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  • Theme: IDEO MindMap

  • Top pick! When I’m trying to come up with ideas or strategize, I draw a mind map. These sketches are completely organic and let me free associate and brainstorm on paper. They’re great for revealing connections between seemingly unrelated ideas. I start in the center, and simply let my ideas branch out.

  • Life @ IDEO

  • David Kelley, an IDEO founder, partly started the company thirty years ago so that he could work with friends. These photos show a sampling of the fun people in our global offices, from Boston and San Francisco to London and Shanghai.

  • World Clock by aoe

  • With eight worldwide locations and six time zones to track, a world clock helps.

  • BBC News

  • I’m from Preston, Lancashire, in North West England, and I previously directed IDEO Europe. Now I’m living in California, but I still follow the BBC News.

  • eBay Search

  • I’m passionate about Porsches — I actually consider automotive engineer Ferdinand Porsche one of the world’s great design thinkers. A maverick, he inspired people to cut across boundaries, to make new connections and insights.

  • Design Thinking

  • Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products, services, processes—and even strategy. I’ve been thinking about this topic for years, and I use my blog, Design Thinking, as a place to share ideas and have a discussion.

  • Google News

  • I travel quite a bit, and subscribing to IDEO’s news, information, and events feed helps keep me connected to what’s going on across the company.

  • Bring a Trailer

  • Bringatrailer.com finds great vintage cars online. The site favors regularly driven real-world classics and cars with well-chosen period-correct modifications.

  • Core77

  • Core77 provides a gathering point for designers and creative enthusiasts through daily content, lecture series, and events.

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