This site is the digital compadre to the IDEO Eyes Open series of experiential guidebooks, now available through Chronicle Books. Think of the site as a gathering place for interesting experiences that resonate with emerging themes in our lives, our communities, and our world.
Each month on the site, ideas for exploration (and the hosts who will introduce them) will change. Experiences will be drawn from a diverse group of IDEO teams, special guests, and you. We urge you to go forward, with eyes open.
Routines
Routines make our day, and they come to define each of us. Often, we're well aware of our uniquely personal daily habits and customs. Other times, manners become so embedded in our beings that they're easily overlooked or forgotten. It takes a moment of disruption, if only in the form of a missing pen or a detour sign, to remind us that we indeed design our lives as a routine.
The following short essays explore how small shifts, certain views and postures can alter one's personal environment. A writer tells how she changed her life to keep to her coffee routine, while another explains his impressively rigorous approach to routine in the home. We hope these stories will inspire designers, architects, engineers, urban planners, and other visionaries to think innovatively about their routines. To ask ourselves, How can life's routine moments become the catalyst for brilliant experience design?
The following short essays explore how small shifts, certain views and postures can alter one's personal environment. A writer tells how she changed her life to keep to her coffee routine, while another explains his impressively rigorous approach to routine in the home. We hope these stories will inspire designers, architects, engineers, urban planners, and other visionaries to think innovatively about their routines. To ask ourselves, How can life's routine moments become the catalyst for brilliant experience design?
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