11 Jul 5 ways to fix information silos in your product team
We work with a team whose product functionality relies heavily on a group of subject-matter experts– SMEs. Despite (or maybe because of) their deep expertise, this group has a hard...
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02 May The Product Leader’s Guide to data-enabled decision-making
As a product leader, your focus needs to be on how to continually improve your product. Competitive challenges are likely a constant for you and your team. If you’re like...
07 Dec Podcast: Build Great Products and Strong Product Teams
On this episode of The Product Podcast, Dan Olsen, author of the bestseller "The Lean Product Playbook", talks about all things related to the product, product strategy, and building strong...
26 Sep Choice overload: Help your users make informed choices
Last week, on our LinkedIn, we focused on the topic of choice overload, a challenge teams often face when building B2B and consumer digital products. In case you missed it,...
05 Aug When is product friction good?
Ezra Klein opens an interview with philosopher C. Thi Nguyen by quoting his guest: “The world is an existential hellscape with too many values, and games offer a temporary relief from that.” We...
18 Nov Something’s missing in the product leader’s toolkit
Our brains are being hacked by intelligent products. Sometimes this is a good thing — hacking us out of our lethargy, for example, to nudge us to exercise. For me,...
28 Sep Does your product help your customer think better?
Our goal at GroupVisual.io is to help product leaders create products that enable people to think more effectively and make better decisions. As a result, we think a lot about...
10 Sep What is a cognitive-behavioral product experience?
Recently I listened to an episode of the db/bd podcast — an interview with Manuel Lima from a couple of years ago. Lima is a well-known data visualization designer. He said something that...
15 Jun We’re in the Top 20 User Experience Design Agencies Report
GroupVisual.io was recently featured in AgencySpotter's Top 20 User Experience Design Agencies Report. ...
03 May Data visualization workshop at ODSC East 2018
On May 1, Mark Schindler (GroupVisual.io) and Bang Wong (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard) hosted the DVUX Workshop at ODSC East. ...
19 Apr DVUX Meetup: Aesthetics in data visualization
On Wednesday, 4/11/18 GroupVisual.io hosted a DVUX Meetup at Venture Cafe. The session began with a keynote from Irene de la Torre of MIT's Senseable City Lab, and ended with...
14 Feb Announcing Design for Data: The Webinar Series
Hosted by GroupVisual.io, Design for Data: The Webinar Series is all about creating products people love. Come hear from two renowned experts in IoT and digital product design. ...
02 Feb Design is more than making things look pretty
When we think of design, we might think about the way something looks—fonts, colors and images. But in reality, design is much more than making something look pretty. ...
17 Nov DVUX Workshop at ESADE Creapolis
On Friday, Nov. 10, GroupVisual.io and Bestiario co-hosted the DVUX Workshop at ESADE Creapolis in Barcelona, Spain. DVUX is a hands-on workshop that combines principles of data visualization and user experience design. The wealth of...
27 Oct DVUX Workshop Comes to Barcelona
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26 Oct Why designers sketch
Almost every experience we design goes through a hand sketching / whiteboarding phase. ...
04 Oct Weekly design challenges
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25 Sep Design Thinking Workshop with MIT Undergrads
On Friday, Sept. 22, 2017, GVio hosted MIT Innovation Engineering undergrads at CIC Cambridge. The course is a requirement for the Undergraduate Minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Throughout the semester,...
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...
12 Aug What We’ve Been Up To: 2017
ODSC East 2017 On May 5th & 8th, we attended ODSC East 2017 (Open Data Science Conference). On Day 1, we participated in the AI showcase, displaying our AI experience demo...
30 Jul A more intuitive treemap?
We find tree maps an extremely helpful way for people to see a big picture of a situation made up of many granular parts. With skillful application of color palettes, coloring and...
25 May UXPA Boston 2017: Takeaways
The 16th Annual User Experience Conference (UXPA) was held on May 19, 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts. Over 1000 designers, researchers, managers and developers were in attendance, including our design team...
16 May Designing with Startups
As a design firm, we’ve worked with a wide variety of companies, from large enterprises looking to create a new product to very small companies just getting started. By working...