26 Oct Why designers sketch
Almost every experience we design goes through a hand sketching / whiteboarding phase. ...
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29 Aug UX Design Myths
The 5 common myths we encounter about UX design. ...
15 Aug User roles vs. personas
If you are in the UX field, you may have heard of both user roles and user personas. But is there a difference between a persona and a role? And...
31 Mar The Value of Usability Testing
While usability testing requires some extra calendar time and budget, we have found the results to be well worth the investment. For example, when an app is very new and...
12 Jul Rethinking Gamification
I first heard the term "gamification" in 2012, when a friend of mine at design school suggested we incorporate game mechanics into one of our projects. Our project was an...
01 Feb How the Whiteboard Inspired Our New Website
When we started discussions about our website redesign, the challenge was understanding where to begin and how to approach the project. We had a current website to work off of...
13 Aug Learning to Love the Process
At Gvio, we work on a range of projects, from dashboards to mobile apps. Behind each one, we think granularly about every step the user takes—the way they get from...
10 Jul Understanding the Journey: It’s All About Context
Context: the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed. There are many ways we can...
02 Jul Fitting It All In: Designing For Complexity Within Interactivity
Zillow can be an interesting site to explore. While it's always been a source of data for property values and such, recently they've been expanding their scope into quantifying and...
19 Jun But first, sketch.
Just wave your magic wand and make it look pretty! I can't tell you the number of times this has been said to me. Often, people don't realize that design doesn't...
09 Jun GVio Held Data Visualization Workshop
Mark Schindler, co-founder of GVio, and Bang Wong, creative director at Broad Institute, held a Data Visualization and UX Workshop at the Open Data Science Conference in Boston last week. The...