UXPA Boston Conference

by Jon on February 27^th, 2013
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UXPA Boston Conference
May 29, 2013
Sheraton Boston Hotel
Boston, MA
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Involution Studios is sponsoring the twelfth annual UXPA Boston Conference.

This year’s conference, focused on Usability and User Experience, will include four simultaneous tracks, giving attendees a choice of 32 presentations. More than 500 attendees will learn about best practices […]

GET Conference

by Jon on February 27^th, 2013
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GET Conference
April 25-26, 2013
Back Bay Events Center
Boston, MA
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As a part of our emerging technologies practice, Involution Studios is proud to be sponsoring this year’s GET (Genomes Environments Traits) Conference.

The GET Conference is for people working on the front lines of human biology. It is the place […]

Involution’s Design Axioms Applauded in The Designer’s Review of Books

by Jon on February 22^nd, 2013
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Dominic Flask, Editor of The Designer’s Review of Books, recently reviewed Involution’s Design Axioms deck, created by Juhan Sonin, along with Luke Wroblewski, Andrei Herasimchuk, and Dirk Knemeyer. The deck features striking graphics, detailing sixteen foundational principles that outline the essential rules of interface design.

The Design Axioms deck serves as a recommended pathway for […]

Interaction13

by Jon on January 20^th, 2013
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Interaction13
January 27-31, 2013
Metro Toronto Convention Center
Toronto, Canada
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Interaction13, the annual conference of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) will feature three speakers from Involution Studios: (above from left to right) Juhan Sonin, Erik Dahl, and Scott Sullivan.

Building Emotional IQ with Laban Movement Analysis
Director of Design Strategy, Erik Dahl and […]

hGraph Selected for National Patient Record Redesign Showcase

by Jon on January 18^th, 2013
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), challenged designers across the United States to re-imagine the presentation of the medical record in order to create a better patient experience. The objective of the Health Design Challenge was to create a usable, beautiful medical record enabling patients to more easily […]

Rethinking the Patient Medical Record

by Jon on December 3^rd, 2012
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The Health Design Challenge, sponsored by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is encouraging the UX design community to rethink the presentation of the medical record in order to create a better patient experience. The objectives are to design a usable, beautiful medical record that […]

mHealth Summit

by Jon on November 8^th, 2012
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mHealth Summit
December 3-5, 2012
The Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center
Washington, DC
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What Goes Into Making an Extraordinary mHeath App?
As a part of the mHealth Summit Technology Trends track, on Wednesday, December 5 from 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM, Involution Studios Creative Director Juhan Sonin will join a distinguished panel […]

Design Axioms at Harvard Business School

by Jon on November 1^st, 2012
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Design Axioms
November 7, 2012
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Harvard Business School
Cambridge, MA

Involution Studios is pleased to announce that Creative Director Juhan Sonin will be a featured lecturer at Harvard Business School’s Project Management 101 course on Wednesday, November 7, 2012, from 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM. In the HBS PM101 class, students learn […]

Involution Studios’ hGraph Selected as a 2012 MITX Interactive Awards Finalist

by Jon on October 19^th, 2012
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For Immediate Release
BOSTON, MA – October 19, 2012 – Involution Studios today announced that hGraph, an open source system for visualizing personal health metrics, has been selected as a finalist in the Healthcare and Wellness category for the 17th Annual MITX Interactive Awards. Held annually by the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange, the Awards recognize excellence […]

hGraph, designed by Involution, Places Second at the New England Health Datapalooza, Advances to National Competition

by Jon on October 4^th, 2012
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Yesterday at the New England Health Datapalooza, held at the DCU Center in Worcester, Mass., judges Pierce Graham-Jones, Innovator in Residence at the US Department of Health and Human Services; John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Group; and Manu Tandon, CIO of the MA Department of HHS, selected hGraph, an open system for visualizing personal health […]

Get Your Design Axioms Card Deck Today

by Jon on September 5^th, 2012
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We’re excited to announce the debut of our Design Axioms card deck, which encapsulates essential software design wisdom from industry luminaries including Andrei Herasimchuk, Luke Wroblewski, Dirk Knemeyer, and Juhan Sonin.

Four years in the making, the first card set has been published as a physical deck, available via Amazon, and as digital art […]

Energy and Software

by Jon on July 23^rd, 2012
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Energy is the industry that IT forgot — or at least until recently. While sectors as varied as finance and healthcare, entertainment and communications have roared ahead with digitization, automation, and analytics, the energy industry has not evolved as rapidly. Despite this fact, it’s clear that the future of energy lies in software. In both conservation and sustainability, software offers […]

Mobile, Content, and the Divergent Ecosystem

by Jon on July 12^th, 2012
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Yesterday, at the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council’s Mobile Summit, panelists and audience members eagerly discussed and debated developing for the often volatile ecosystem of mobile. The summit general session, “Content is King” featured panelists Phil Costa, Director of Product Management at Brightcove; Jeff Moriarty, VP of Digital Products at the Boston Globe; and Sanjay Vakil, Director of Mobile Product at […]

The Software Revolution Will Be Televised

by Jon on June 6^th, 2012
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Last year, Internet luminary and entrepreneur Marc Andreessen wrote a significant essay in the Wall Street Journal, outlining the many ways in which software has become absolutely vital to our world. Software allows us to extend our reach even further than we did before, automating processes, accelerating the rate of change, and providing the sinews between people and data. […]

Health, Technology, and Design

by Jon on April 8^th, 2012
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At the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center last Wednesday evening, software innovators came together for a series of presentations and conversation about the opportunity for technology and design to effect positive change in healthcare.

The program, “Linking Healthcare, Technology and Design”, explored aspects of the changing face of the industry, and how digital solutions could provide the […]

Boston is a Hub of Marketing Software, the Next Big Tech Sector

by Jon on March 17^th, 2012
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A few hours ago GigaOm published an article declaring “Marketing is the next big money sector in technology”. In the first paragraph, the author, Ajay Agarwal of Bain Capital Ventures, sets up the future of the industry this way: “For the first time in history, businesses can leverage big data for the benefit of driving marketing insights. We are […]

What the iPad Retina Display Means for Designers

by Jon on March 7^th, 2012
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Today Apple revealed the third generation iPad with its Retina screen, bringing the most powerful mobile visual display to market with a whopping 326 ppi in its 9.7 inch space. Print resolutions typically range from 300 – 1800 dpi, which means that Apple has effectively brought mobile computing into that same realm, a significant step to say the least. […]

The Internet of Things, Seeding Boston Start Ups, and One User Experience for All

by Jon on February 22^nd, 2012
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Here’s what we’re reading online, this week at Involution, on design, tech, and the digital life, in our links round up.

The Internet of Things Will Rise in Boston
With the advent of the mobile revolution, we’re now living connected lives, where our day-to-day activities are closely tied to the digital products and services that we carry with us everywhere […]

Involution Principal to conduct applied UX methods workshop and expert session at HIMSS12, healthcare and technology conference

by Jon on February 15^th, 2012
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For Immediate Release

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (U.S.) – February 15, 2012 – Involution Studios Creative Director Juhan Sonin will conduct an applied UX methods workshop and expert session at the HIMSS12, healthcare and technology conference next week. The hands-on, interactive workshop will focus on real-world scenarios in measuring the effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction of the user experience with Electronic […]

Involution Principal announced as speaker at NextGen:Health, healthcare innovation conference

by Jon on February 2^nd, 2012
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For Immediate Release

NEW YORK, New York (U.S.) – February 2, 2012 – Involution Studios Creative Director Juhan Sonin was announced today as a featured speaker at the NextGen:Health, leaders in healthcare innovation conference.

At NextGen:Health, top innovators in healthcare will bring game-changing ideas to the forefront of the industry. The first day of the conference includes a series […]

Software Design is a Team Sport

by Jon on November 4^th, 2011
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I’m a big Boston sports nut. And, as cliched as the sports metaphor may be for discussions on teamwork, there are lessons to be learned from the collapse of the Red Sox, which was the worst in baseball history and has ongoing and transformative consequences for the organization. There were, of course, many reasons for the losing streak that took […]

On Talent, War, and Devastation

by Jon on August 12^th, 2011
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Ever since the U.S. started on its long road to recovery from the Great Recession and tech companies began expanding the ranks of their employees again, there’s been a dearth of talent to choose from, especially those most important senior level team members in engineering and user experience. This lack of readily available personnel has driven not only an increase […]

Five Reasons to Sketch Your User Interface

by Jon on July 14^th, 2011
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At Involution, when we design software, we draw upon a process akin to industrial design, where—after we engage in an initial product architecture to understand the feature grouping, flow, and functionality—the next step is often sketching.

If you haven’t done it before, sketching concepts for a software user experience may seem like a daunting task located in foreign territory: […]