08 May How do UX and AI work together?
At GroupVisual.io, user experience with AI-powered products has been on our minds lately. We want to share some of what we've learned, and put forth some questions for the design...
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29 Apr Hooked: Data Visualization and User Motivation
When designing data visualizations, many practitioners focus on what is the right type of chart or visual metaphor to display a particular data set. It certainly makes sense to focus...
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...
09 Jun May 2016: What We’ve Been Up To
Nicholas Felton at the ICA On May 12th, our designers Maggie Price and Erin Gwozdz went to hear information designer Nicholas Felton speak at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Our team...
25 Feb DVUX Workshop
What is DVUX? We live in a world with an abundance of data which gives us opportunities for insight and action. But often it’s easy to get lost in it all....
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...
03 Sep From Design to Code: Collaborating with Developers
Ever since I joined GVio as a UI/UX designer a little over two years ago, I've had the opportunity to collaborate directly with developers (both in-house and remote teams). During...
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...
06 Aug Self-Tracking: Problems and Possibilities for an Emerging Industry
Self-tracking, or collecting personal data to achieve quantitative self-knowledge, is a reoccurring topic of interest both in my work and personal life. I have spent a good deal of time...
15 Jul The Feedback Sandwich
Criticism is good. It helps people improve their work. When a designer is told that the interface they created is not convenient, they improve it and create a better product....
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...
27 May Why We Adopted Agile Design
Agile methodology has been around for a while, but has traditionally been applied more to development than design processes. When I took over management of Groupvisual.io from my co-founder Angela...
19 Sep Visual Data Input
People abandon surveys for a number of reasons. Too long. Too boring. Too in-depth. Typical survey tools offer a limited amount of complexity for data collectors. Common inputs are multiple...
05 May Architecting the Built Environment of Data
A lot of people ask how we, as architects came to data visualization...
22 Apr Pattern Recognition & Uncanny Data
A recent article in the New York Times cited new research that suggests we are more alert to patterns when we have seen, or experienced, something odd or uncanny. These...
12 Apr We’re featured in Fast Company Magazine
Fast Company Magazine profiles Angela Shen-Hsieh in its annual Masters of Design issue....
01 Apr Q&A: Dialoguing with your Data
There's a lot of talk about "Easy BI" and "business intelligence for everyone." And for obvious reasons: the current state of the art is hard to use and has required...
14 Mar Designing for Decision-making—not the same as workflow
One of the challenges of the visualization business is that 'visualization' means different things to different people. And naturally, people go with what they know. One of the related areas—and...
07 Feb Read about us in Xconomy
"You can derive such insight by playing with data in real-time, rather than...
17 Sep Key Decisions Require Vision
Next-Generation Business Intelligence through Interactive Visual Analysis In business, the best information wins. But today's enterprises are struggling to make use of the volumes and complexity of available data. Next-generation, visual...