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...

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.
Interface Design Tools
- Figma - web based design and prototyping tool that supports collaboration.
- Sketch - digital design toolkit for constructing screens and comps. Not PC friendly.
- XD - design, prototype, experience.
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
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.
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
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.
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

Accurat - Milan, NY design firm with beautiful data vis
Invo Examples - dropbox folder with examples of our best work
NY Times - often has great data vis + storytelling
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
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.

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

Conferences

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

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

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

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
Medicine Conferences
- APHA - public health
- Festival of genomics - genetics conference
- Mayo clinic individualizing medicine conference - precision medicine
- GET - genomics and society

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