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Tim Stutts Emerging Product Design

IBM Watson News Explorer Web Application


Company: IBM
Provided: interaction design, user interface design, data visualization, research, development
Date: 2015 - 2016


IBM Watson News Explorer combined Alchemy News API and d3.js library to automatically construct a news information network and presents large volumes of news results via interlinked data visualizations. News Explorer was created by the Watson Cognitive Visualization Lab (now Visual AI Lab), of which I was a part. I completed the user interface design and development of the application, in addition to co-developing the data visualizations with Steve Ross, who also developed the back-end. Megan Monroe was also a collaborator. Our team was managed by Mauro Martino.

News Explorer is no longer online, but had over 2 million unique queries over the years,  received a prestigious 'Kantar Information is Beautiful Award,' and was recently featured in the book ‘Atlas of Macroscopes: Interactive Data Visualizations” from MIT Press. 
About

Tim Stutts (he/him) here. I’m a pioneering product designer and leader, who spent two decades working in software user experience, including user interface, input, sensory feedback, and data visualization, for loT, extended reality, neurotech, and beyond. More recently I’ve shifted my focus upstream, providing early stage research and strategy surrounding product development opportunities.

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