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Continue reading →: Dear Data #1: A Journey Through My Personal LibraryBooks to me are more than stories bound in pages. They’re adventures, companions, and a way to explore the vastness of my imagination. I’ve been an avid reader for a few years now and was curious about the state of my personal library. After being inspired but Giorgia Lupi and…
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Continue reading →: Navigating the Four Types of Information Visuals: When & Why to Use ThemData visualization is more than making data easy to read and look appealing. It’s about choosing the right format to communicate your insights effectively. We will explore the four types of visuals defined by author Scott Berinato in his book Good Charts and also discuss the insights from David McCandless‘…
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Continue reading →: The Promise and Pitfalls of Data Visualization in the Digital AgeData visualization is more than just creating attractive visuals. It’s about making sense of complex information that might otherwise be hard to understand. For many people, looking at a chart or graph is much more digestible than looking at raw data. It can save you time when performing research or…
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Continue reading →: Case Study: Designing WalletWize — A Gen Z Financial Literacy AppWe live in a world where many young people feel like that managing their money is overwhelming. Often, they ask themselves questions like, “How much money should I be saving?” “When should I start planning for retirement?” “What’s an index fund?” and it seems like everyone they ask has their…
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Continue reading →: Testing Time: Real Users, Real Feedback, Real GrowthIn phase 4 of our design sprint, we transitioned from building our prototype to testing it. After carefully building our app, WalletWize, it was finally time to put it in the hands of potential users. We wanted to watch them interact with the app and listen to their thoughts on…
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Continue reading →: Prototyping WalletWize: Turning Storyboards Into RealityThis week, my team and I entered phase 3 of our design sprint. Our mission was to transform our storyboard from Phase 2 into an interactive prototype that’s ready for user testing. With multiple meetings and plenty of team collaboration, we created a medium-fidelity, clickable prototype for WalletWize. Step 1:…
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Continue reading →: WalletWize: Designing with Purpose in Phase 2This week my team and I completed Phase 2 of our design sprint. Phase 2 is all about making decisions and finalizing a storyboard. Decision making during a design sprint can feel a little unnatural because there’s very little time to debate your choices. In Jake Knapp‘s book, Sprint: How…
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Continue reading →: Unlocking Insights: The Power of Expert Interviews in Design SprintsEvery phase of the design sprint is equally important, but the “Ask the Experts” activity, that Jake Knapp recommends doing on Monday afternoon, lays the foundation for innovative solutions. Without the experts’ knowledge, you won’t have a clear direction for your sprint. During this activity team members will engage in…
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Continue reading →: Sprint Into Action: A Beginner’s Guide to Preparing for Your First Google Design SprintStarting to prepare for your first Google Design Sprint can be both and exiting and overwhelming venture. Developed by Jake Knapp at Google Ventures, the Google Design Sprint is a five day process that helps businesses, large and small, solve critical problems through ideation, prototyping, and testing. Being fully prepared…
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Continue reading →: Design Sprints: Accelerating UI/UX the Google WayIn the fast paced world of digital product development, time is of the essence and it always seems like there’s not enough. Enter the Design Sprint, a five day process started in the 2010s by Jake Knapp at Google Ventures (GV). Design sprints were created to rapidly solve complex problems…






