Yves Béhar

Why you should listen

Yves Béhar is a designer, entrepreneur and avid surfer whose principles for good design have been deeply influential across the field. He has produced groundbreaking products, including the Herman Miller Sayl chair, the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) XO, the SNOO Smart Sleeper, The Frame TV by Samsung and the August Smart Lock, which he also co-founded. Over the last twenty years, Béhar and his team at fuseproject have also pioneered design as force for positive social and environmental change. He was named a "Top 25 Visionary" by TIME Magazine and was recently named "Most Influential Industrial Designer in the World" by Forbes. He lives in San Francisco and surfs all over the world.