My name is Simone Lippolis, and I am one of the founders and contributors at Visualize News. After almost ten years working as a Senior Design Technologist at frog, I am now working on Data Visualizations for the Network Assurance Data Platform at Cisco ThousandEyes. I am strongly against the idea that users are lazy or stupid, and I believe that the best way to prove that a design can work, especially for data-driven products, is not by being conservative or patronizing the users, but by being open to feedback. I truly believe that product, design, and development should work together to achieve the best outcomes. In fact, in my experience, the best products I have contributed to are the ones where this collaboration has been enforced, exploited, and nurtured. The key to creating a successful product is to design it on solid pillars: investing in rapid prototyping and user validation can dramatically improve your chances of success.
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