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Back to the Futurist: Anab Jain EmailShare 39EmailShare The fourth post of the Back to the Futurist series is dedicated to Anab Jain. Previous in Series: Liam Young Who is Anab Jain? Anab is a designer, entrepreneur, TED Fellow and the founder of Superflux, a multidisciplinary design company based in London, UK and Ahmedabad, India. Follow Anab on Twitter: @anabjain Interview Which futurists past and present inspire you and why? Growing up India, and specializing in film at a design school started by Ray and Charles Eames, I have been hugely influenced by a number of notable image-makers and storytellers who worked to create radical visions of the future. Still from Solaris Solaris Poster Brueghel’s painting ‘Hunters in the Snow’ as seen in Solaris Another important inspiration is the avant-garde design group ‘Superstudio’, whose radical visions of a world devoid of architecture threw light on an economically wounded Italy in the post-war world. Superstudio’s ‘Third City: New York of Brains, 1971. Neither. ARK radio
About Us IDEO has been working in the social sector for more than ten years. Recently, it became clear that launching a nonprofit organization focused solely on social innovation would allow IDEO to make an even bigger impact on global poverty. Enter, IDEO.org! Through Human-Centered Design projects, we're bringing stability, hope, and dignity to communities around the world that are wrestling with poverty. To establish IDEO.org, IDEO provided substantial seed funding. IDP Foundation, Inc. In late February 2014, The IDP Foundation attended the African Philanthropy Forum in Addis Ababa. Continue reading December, 2013 – Second press release from The Forum for Education Reform, Imani Centre for Policy and Education Continue reading In late October of 2013, Mrs. Honored speakers at the APEC Women’s Leadership Forum in Beijing, China this month. The Purpose Prize honors Americans 60 and older solving the world’s toughest social problems. The theme, Championing Innovation Through Inclusive Leadership Continue reading International Support to Low-Cost Private Schools The IDP Rising Schools Program has made the top 100 list for The Rockefeller Foundation’s Next Century Innovators Award. Click here to find out more. Continue reading
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Using Your UX-pertise to Save the World: Pro Bono Work That Also Benefits YouUser Experience Magazine Figure 1. A designer and researcher pair up and propose website usability improvements to a nonprofit representative during our World Usability Day event. There are companies and organizations in our community that are struggling to improve life beyond the commercial sector. Most of them lack the expertise or the resources to improve their messaging or the usability of their products. Critical communication is lost in translation between the lines of their cluttered website. Here is the story of how I coupled my love for helping others with my passion for user experience to create a meaningful and lasting impact on both the nonprofit community and my career. Rite of Passage into the World of UX Pro Bono My own journey of UX enlightenment began with a seemingly simple conversation with my career coach. She asked, “What are you missing from your old job and how can you incorporate that into what you’re doing today?” But I wanted to take it a step further. Figure 2. Figure 3. Benefits
Themes | SOCAP: Designing the Future (Malmö, Sweden) The following are the core themes that will be covered at SOCAP: Designing the Future. What are the best creative market-based solutions to the complex, interconnected issues of youth unemployment, immigrant inclusion and providing for the needs of a growing aging population? A new kind of investment fund is teaching skills, creating jobs, and funding new enterprises for youth and immigrants. The economy of the future will have to work for both people and the planet; dissolving siloed approaches that focus only on the planet or only on social problems. Throughout Europe, public funding is drying up. Getting to the future we want requires social enterprise to grow fast enough and large enough to meet the challenges of the future; to scale at the pace of the world’s problems.
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