The Insight Labs team just returned from New Orleans, where they staged the second annual UX for Good event. UX for Good is an annual gathering from some of the [...]
Editor envisions life after school following Lab
There are lots of ideas to improve America’s schools. But what if all those proposals just eke extra efficiency out of a flawed model? That’s the anxiety addressed by an [...]
Leitner highlights a “sorely missing” way to give back
More and more companies are bringing philanthropy into the workplace. It’s now common to see major corporations enlist their entire workforce to clean up a park or refurbish a community [...]
Five ways Labs avoid conventional collaboration
Sometimes people blanche when we tell them we intend to save the world through meetings. We don’t blame them – very few of the calendar items people experience in life [...]
Labs inspire “honest and direct” conversation
How often do you have a genuine, honest conversation about what you do? It’s hard, given the politics and distraction that often intrude on our day-to-day lives. An Insight Lab is a [...]
Reminding NASA how cool they are
The sessions we host at Insight Labs have a weird way of pumping people up. Despite having discussed some of their most serious problems for three hours, the representatives of [...]
Labsters bandy regional rebrands
Most consumers are by now familiar with advertising campaigns designed to promote cities, states, and regions. But are those ads really effective in achieving economic development, increased tourism, or whatever [...]
“We like dangerous ideas,” says Labs director
As Insight Labs Dean Jeff Leitner likes to remind participants in our strategic sessions for the common good, we’re not here to brainstorm. We’re not here to carve out political [...]
Labs produce big thinking for good and profit
One of the reasons problems don’t get solved in the real world is because, in most cases, the problem-solvers are fighting to keep their jobs. No problem means no job. [...]