Sketching in Hardware: Dave Vondle

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Openness at IDEO
- bridging design professionals and open source community
- trying to open up prototyping tools as a way to create something open at a consulting company that sells design outcomes
-- using a network to keep tools viable, update them, and expand them
- the network is the tool
- IDEO Labs
-- a blog to share IDEO technology with the world
- what they learned
-- you have to put in the work
-- participation is not a given ... so chunk tasks out into tiny bits so that no one has to do too much
--- so you can open up just a small part of the project
--- easier here because they worked with an open source company or prototyping a participatory service
-- opening tools to keep them up to date works
-- working with Bug Labs to open up the whole project
- "the community doesn't come easy, or free" -- especially in a two-week project
- open communities are good for brutally honest feedback
- Facebook Big Conversations
-- it just keeps getting bigger because no one ever leaves and more people join
-- but it's no one's job to turn the conversation into concrete things, so it's hard to get actionable ideas from it
- are design firms unnecessary?
-- well...leveraging innovation networks for strong points within a typical project process
-- issues: feature creep, suppression of break thru ideas, loss of focus

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