If you are looking to make a change and demonstrate it to others, there’s one thing you must do: capture your baseline. A baseline is your starting point. It can be done with whatever available data you have – the more specific, detailed and well-fitting, the better. However, don’t let the perfect be the enemy …
Three design metrics can assess whether we are creating things of value or simply leading us down the wrong path.
Among the greatest challenges of doing research and evaluation is ensuring you get participation from enough (and the right) people. Surveys are everywhere. It feels like everyone wants our feedback on just about everything. Yet, the more surveys out there the more we should be concerned about data quality, too. On top of that, we …
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What if innovation was like epidemiology? What if we wanted to understand the source, scope, scale, and spread of an idea or product? That’s one way that we think about the innovation process. Innovation – like a virus — is similar to infectious disease epidemiology. Both of these areas look at the development of something, …
Multimedia visualizations are powerful ways to convey a lot of information in a small space and with little time. The use of a visual — a map, a drawing, a picture, sketch, or collage — provides layers of information beyond words. When dealing with complex situations, visualizations provide clear communication pathways. Unlike some of our …
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