BIF Experience Labs

The Experience Labs at BIF are born from a deep conviction that we need new thinking and ideas to transform some of society’s most outmoded, intractable systems — the systems that one gets a headache just thinking about — like education, healthcare, energy consumption, and economic development.

Central to the BIF mission are our Experience Labs, where together with a network of collaborators and partners from the public and private sectors, we can design and test game changing new ideas.

Our approach starts by gathering powerful insights from the real world. We put the people — the student, elder, consumer, patient, entrepreneur — at the center of the design dialogue and find the patterns in their behaviors, motivations, and factors. These insights become part of our open source knowledge platform. Taking the observations one step further, we identify opportunity areas for companies, nonprofits, and government agencies to play with and test in the real world. We often partner with these groups to lead the experimentation — from prototyping to testing to market making.