Robin Bigio

To get up to speed quickly on the new IDEO.org cookstoves project, the team is interviewing a variety of industry experts, including stove designers, testers, funders, implementers and manufacturers. These expert interviews are a key component in the "hear" stage of human-centered design. 

IDEO.org's Robin Bigio provides an update on the pivot that the Clean Kumasi project has taken after two weeks in Kumasi, Ghana testing the #crapmap prototype.

Robin Bigio and his IDEO.org team are back in Kenya working with Juhudi Kilimo to design new ways to provide better agricultural training and support to farmers. 

After 3 long weeks of synthesis, concepting and presenting, the cookstoves project comes to an end - for now. IDEO.org Fellow Robin Bigio discusses five recomended "shifts" that the IDEO.org team identified for the clean cookstoves industry. 

Our IDEO.org team visited Cleveland, Ohio, as part of the first stage of our research for a project with the Rockefeller Foundation to understand and capture the human experience of two major challenges for low-income people in the US, long-term unemployment and the youth employment skills gap. Here's an update from our team.

While still in Nairobi, and building on learnings from their first prototype, Robin Bigio and his IDEO.org team set out to determine how the business model they're designing might really work. Along the way, they sell products door-to-door and from a functioning kiosk rented for the day. 

The first iteration of the IDEO.org TEDx in a Box prototype is complete and ready for action at TEDx events around the world. Check it out!