Resources
Resources is a glorified list of assets, code, research, and more. The purpose is to conveniently bring together resources for your own education. If you’d like to add something, just do it.
Pro tip: Ctrl F can be helpful in this section.
Studio
People
- Colleen - Dancing! Illustration, being smol, crochet
- Craig - !!WARNING: approach wild Craigs with caution. anything software development, system architecture/thinking, prototyping, github, emotional support, synths and sounds, graphic tees 💯, vegan
- Dan - statistics, mathy stuff, science, data/math/quantitative models, brewing 🍻, woodworking/shop, resident Figma genius
- Eric - Design from pixels to kitchens, 🏒hockey, random studio questions, sketching, cooking
- Jen - Design feedback, responsive design, getting MBTA passes, finding things in the studio, tea, crochet, all things 🐈😻
- Juhan - 💡 design, critique, howz to dooz biz, Estonian pancakes, MIT shenanigans
- Parsuree - 🇹🇭, visual design, concept development, User Interface design, typography, whimsical watercolor, animals, (smelly) food!
- Sharon - Typically eager to help, here for: design feedback, a brainstorming pal, scribing practice, or if you want to discuss the future of healthcare, ceramics, contemporary choreography 👯♀, ... urban exploration...
Other helpful links
- First day checklist - for new hires
- StaffPlan - where we log our hours
- Toggl - tool for tracking your time
Project Mgmt
Tracking Progress
- Asana - Asana allows you to assign tasks to users, list end dates, categorize the task, and plot progress in various formats including Kan Ban and Calendar.
- Trello - Trello lets you make lists and tag list items in the Kan Ban style.
- Github - Github has a Project feature where you can create a Kan Ban to track tasks. When Dropbox isn't an option, Github also great for holding project files as it can track versioning with 2-factor authentication security.
Templates & Surveys
- Client Exit Survey - for the client at the end of the project
- Invo Exit Survey - for the Invo team at the end of the project
- Kickoff Survey - for clients and stakeholders at the start of a project
- Kickoff Template - two schedules are outlined (2-day kickoffs and short kickoffs)
- Marketing Material Survey - for the Invo team to help collect any prime work for marketing
- Post Mortem Templates - tool to help evaluate and learn from completed projects. Find a good example here
Design
Design Tools
- Adobe Suite - the standard AfterEffects, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator.
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Interface Design Tools
- Oracle - A colorblindness simulator you need!
- WebAim Contrast Checker - make sure your contrast meets accessibility standards.
- Zeplin - style guide builder with integrations for Sketch, Figma, and XD.
Design Guides
- IBM Data Visualization - guidelines for successful & cohesive vis design
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Information Architecture (IA)
- A Beginner’s Guide to Information Architecture for UX Designers - Helpful basics about IA
- Information Architecture. The Most Important Part of Design You’re Probably Overlooking. - Helpful basics about IA
- Material Design - visual language built on basic design principles and the metaphor of physical material. This is a great tool for new designers.
- US Web Design Standards - UI that meets Accessibility standards
- US Usability Guide - The what, why, how, and tools for designing usable experiences by the US gov
User Research & Testing Tools
- Framer Prototyping - prototyping via a split screen of simple coffee script on one side and your digital prototype on the other. Great for slick animations/interactions.
- Invision Prototyping - simplest prototyping system - upload screens and link together.
- Optimal Workshop User Research - Optimal workshop costs a hefty monthly fee but provides a fantastic set of tests including Tree Tests, Card Sorting, basic Surveys, and more.
- Proto.io Prototyping - prototyping tool that’s designer-friendly and high functionality
- Transcription Service for Recordings - This is helpful for transcribing user interviews to search for further insights.
User Research & Testing Guides
- User Testing Articles from Nielsen Norman Group - The list includes: How To Setup a Mobile Usability Test, How to Test Visual Design, Top 10 Information Architecture (IA) Mistakes and more.
Assets
- GoInvo Figma Styles and Templates - a homegrown style guide template produced by Jen P.
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Fonts
- Dropbox font folder - directory of fonts we’ve purchased
- Font Squirrel - a great place to find free fonts
- Google Fonts - a great place to find free open source fonts
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Icons
- Dropbox icon folder - directory of icons: Helveticons and hand crafted icons, also found in Figma
- Noun Project - a great place to find icons or get ideas for icons. We have a paid account to use them for free without royalty mentions. Ask Sharon.
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Stock Photos
- Flickr Creative Commons - photos with various open licenses
- GoInvo Stockphotos Devices - This folder contains healthcare envirnments, mockup templates, stockphotos from Death To Stock, and devices.
- Stock Photos that don’t suck
- Free SVG maps
Design Examples and Inspiration
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Accurat - Milan, NY design firm with beautiful data vis
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Invo Examples - dropbox folder with examples of our best work
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NY Times - often has great data vis + storytelling
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Pudding.cool - data visualization + storytelling
Engineering
Styling guidelines
This is a comprehensive guide curated by GoInvo to help newcomers to coding learn the ways of the force.
More tools and learning code
- Codeacademy - good starting place for picking up the basics or learning new languages
- Codrops - great snippets and tutorials
- D3 - JS visualization library
- SASS - CSS, but better
- SQL ZOO - Interactive SQL tutorial
- Regex101 - live regular expression tester and validator
- Groovy Console - If using Groovy, useful tool for testing Groovy scripts
- ROSALIND - learning bioinformatics and programming through active problem solving, including Python and classic bioinformatic algorithms
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Personal Programming Reference Library - (also known as PPRL, pronounced “people” as a Furby would say it) Learning contains ebooks covering a wide range of programming topics, from database design to frontend visualization to framework-specific tutorials. Reference contains reference textbooks on prob/stats and applied to theoretical computer science.
- If interested in SQL databases
- If interested in graph databases
- If interested in RESTful API design
- If interested in data visualization
- If interested in code deployment tools
- If interested in useful CSS techniques
- If interested in Java development
- If interested in Javascript and Javascript framework development
- If interested in an introductory text to common AI techniques
Accounts
- GoInvo GitHub
- Media Temple - description
Keep Learning
Virtual Bookshelf - all of the books in the GoInvo Library
Past Research on Specific User Groups
- Alzheimer’s Research - googledoc compiling research about experiencing Alzheimer’s (what’s the diagnosis process like, care, pathology, recent innovation); created by Sharon in preparation for the RIC with Matchstick and Eli Lilly
- HCI for low-income, low-literate - dropbox folder of research papers by Kathryn Summers, Ph.D
Recommended Reading
On healthcare
- An American Sickness - Elizabeth Rosenthal
- The Patient Will See You Now - Eric Topol (red book spine)
- America’s Bitter Pill - Steven Brill
- Understanding Healthcare - Richard Saul Wurman (white book spine)
- Being Mortal - Atul Gawande
- Health Justice Now - Timothy Faust
- Doctored - Sandeep Jauhar
- Deep Medicine - Eric Topol (audio section)
- Better - Atul Gawande (audio section)
- Is Medicine Still Good for Us? - Julian Sheather | Thames & Hudson (teal book spine)
- Our Bodies, Our Data - Adam Tanner (black book spine)
- What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear - Danielle Ofri
- Redefining Healthcare - Michael E Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg
On design
- Designing for People - Henry Dreyfuss (white book spine)
- The Design of Everyday Things - Donald A Norman
- Atomic Design - Brad Frost
- The Elements of Style - William Strunk (white book spine)
- The Artist's Way - Julia Cameron (red book spine)
- Art Matters - Neil Gaiman (blue book spine)
- The Creative Habit - Twyla Tharp (white book spine)
- Health Design Thinking - Bon Ku, Ellen Lupton (red book spine)
- On Web Typography - Jason Santa Maria | A Book Apart (red book spine)
- Responsive Web Design - Ethan Marcotte | A Book Apart (yellow book spine)
- Mobile First - Luke Wroblewski | A Book Apart (green book spine)
- Inspired EHRs - Jeff Belden, Jennifer Patel (white book spine)
On business
- Getting Real - Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Basecamp
- Principles - Ray Dalio
- Good to Great - James C. Collins (red book spine)
- Is Capitalism working? - Jacob Field | Thames & Hudson (yellow book spine)
- You’re My Favorite Client - Mike Monteiro | A Book Apart (green book spine)
- It doesn’t have to be crazy at work - Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson (black book spine)
On society X technology
- Automating Inequality - Virginia Eubanks (white book spine)
- Hello World - Hannah Fry (white book spine)
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff
- They Don’t Represent Us - Lawrence Lessig
- Corporations are Not People - Jeffrey D. Clements
- Breaking Through Power - Ralph Nader (black book spine)
- Weapons of Math Destruction - Cathy O'Neil (yellow book spine)
- Is Democracy Failing? - Niheer Dasandi | Thames & Hudson (red book spine)
- On Tyranny - Timothy Snyder
- These Truths - Jill Lepore
- The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein
- The Open Organization - Jim Whitehurst
- Unrig: How to Fix our Broken Democracy - Daniel G. Newman and George O'Connor
Conferences
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Design Conferences
- MWUX (oct) - UX design
- UXPA (may) - UX design
- GET (april) - human biology
- IxDA (feb) - largest interaction design
- Data viz summit (sep) - data design and analysis
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Tech + Design Conferences
- CHI - human computer interaction
- FITC - a creativity and innovation conference in Toronto
- HCI international - human computer interaction
- Open viz conference - data visualization, information design
- Poptech - design and technology
- IEEE vis - science and information visualization
- Intelligent user interfaces - AI based interface
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Design + Medicine Conferences
- Stanford medicine X - academic medical conference
- HXR - design and medicine
- Digital health ACM - digital health research
- IDSA medical design conference - healthcare products
- TEDMED - health and medicine talks
- Human factors and ergonomics and healthcare -
- Mayo transform - medicine + design conference hosted by mayo clinic
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Tech + Medicine Conferences
- HIMSS connected health conference - digital health conference
- Health datapalooza - health data and health policy
- OHDSI bioIT world - medical informatics
- Medical informatics world - medical informatics
- Ihealth clinical informatics - health informatics
- Boston health IT summit - health informatics
- Health 2.0 - healthcare tech conference
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Medicine Conferences
- APHA - public health
- Festival of genomics - genetics conference
- Mayo clinic individualizing medicine conference - precision medicine
- GET - genomics and society