Soo over hyped - Senior Business Designer IDEO Employee Review

1.0
Jan 2, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Great reputation (due to David Kelley)

Cons

IDEO has been great at building a reputation and has been banking on that for nearly two decades. The problem is that they don't really offer anything truly new - they simply regurgitate a bunch of design thinking / "human centred design" concepts that anyone could learn in a few days by doing some online training on the subject. I was really disappointed by what they say they do and what they actually do. It's a great business model that makes lots of money for the partners but if you want to do something truly innovative look elsewhere.

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