Where designers bring ideas to life
Speed up the process of ideation, evaluation, and creation of final designs. Centralize product specifications, research, meeting outcomes, sketches, and more in a digital space designed to accelerate the creative process — however, and wherever you work.
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We Stand for Teams. Streamline Collaboration. Make decisions with Confidence.
Track, manage and visualize your projects across any team with Nova. Get started for free. From lists and tasks to whiteboards, to sessions, organize work your way. Hit Deadlines every time and make decisions with confidence.
Market research
Conduct user interviews, surveys, or gather insights from websites and data. Utilize resources and templates available in one place to manage your research phase. Research walls, surveys, SWOT analysis, competitors analysis, and more.
Journey mapping, Personas, and more.
Boost empathy and customer-centricity to improve results and connect with your target market.
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The digital idea wall
Visualize your product vision, discuss ideas, review prototypes and create rapid prototypes and sketches. Make sure each design is reviewed on time by including a due date. Nova automatically notifies your team and invites them to participate.
Add notes, feedback, sketches, videos, and more.
Product roadmap and task management
Create kanban boards, product roadmaps, and manage your tasks in one place. Filter tasks by status, color, and effort.
Gather feedback. On-time.
Centralize feedback to surface insights, identify patterns,
and make informed decisions. Ask for feedback from your team and users. Create feedback walls or questionnaires. Browse our privacy settings to avoid bias and add due dates to keep everyone accountable.
Collaborate with other departments without limits.
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Facilitate better brainstorming sessions
Let all team and collaborators share their knowledge. Use digital sticky notes, voting, and live cursor tracking, call rooms, sketching, and more.
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Prioritize your tasks
Organize your pile of tasks and user stories notes into a neat stack. You can use a numerical prioritization method or the MoSCoW method.
Nova includes these and other methodologies. Keep your team aligned, and make decisions faster and together.
#MoSCoW #HEART #AARRR #B.E.A #CHLIevaluation and more
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Choose a methodology
You can automatically implement processes and methodologies with Nova, so whether you follow #designthinking processes, #agile, #visualthinking, #lateralthinking or #designsprints, Nova will help you collaborate and get things done faster.
Build your own process – or…
…choose a workflow
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Automatic facilitation
Guide your team from anywhere and at any time. Nova’s Thinking OS saves your processes and company values and removes all guessing out from your processes so that you and your team can make confident decisions and design the right solutions faster.
Guide your team and work together – however, and wherever you want
Add step-by-step instructions and guide your team and collaborators.
Nova provides a repository where employees can keep these processes and it is also where they get work done on them. New employees can simply load up a previously-built workflow and get started, and old processes can be updated on the fly as your company evolves.
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![HEART Framework](https://novatools.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Product-design-HEART-framework.png)
Asynchronous stand-up meetings
With Nova, stand-ups can take place without the need for real-time communication. Nobody needs to jump on a video call or schedule a specific time slot in their calendar to participate and share their status updates.
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Organizations often have individual domain knowledge holders who are in charge of mastering the process and communicating that process to the team. Nova helps integrate that knowledge into the same space where people work, and ensure that the knowledge remains once those important individuals leave the company. In addition to employees, this also includes consultants, experts, mentors and facilitators who can make their knowledge accessible to the team inside of Nova, which helps organizations implement expert processes long term.
With clear processes and centralized space for collaboration, teams get work done faster. Organizations and their teams are more agile because they are able to start working following the steps of the process and spending less time coordinating and finding information about work.
Nova reduces the mental anxiety that uncertainty and unclear processes create on teams. Cross-functional and remote teams can use Nova to make decisions, collaborate with the team while having the certainty of how things should be done.
New employees can learn and instantly follow processes and methodologies as they start working. They are guided during the whole process – reducing the amount of time a manager needs to spend explaining processes, requirements and the organization of files.
Without an effective system and collaborative workspace, teams move slowly, miss deadlines, and fail to take advantage of their human capital.
In some cases, teams depend on their managers or consultants to guide their thinking, and for this reason, team members are bombarded with emails and messaging applications asking for status updates, clarification about processes and information about requirements.
This results in inefficiency during this fragile process that can keep the team divided and keep decision making in the sole hands of one individual. This leads to questions going unanswered, and employees spending more time seeking information, looking for examples, responding to messages, or making assumptions, all in an attempt to provide clarity and accountability to their teams. This is particularly true during the ideation and strategic phase where each person has a personal way to think and approach problems. And while no thinking system is wrong or right, without a common thinking process that guides team decisions and actions, teams cannot align and move forward.
At Nova, we want to minimize work about work, reduce chaos and team misalignment and give individuals time back to focus on making the right decision, moving ideas forward and developing the right strategies that make an organization succeed. Teams need an all-in-one solution where teams go to think and make decisions so they can grow their business, build better products and thrive.
Teams today must navigate work that is increasingly cross-functional and distributed, while also making the right decisions and moving quickly to meet objectives. For example, a product launch usually requires coordination across multiple departments—product management, engineering, marketing, sales, and customer support. In some cases these hierarchical processes centralize managers as decision-makers but also as bottlenecks because all the thinking process and requirements depend on their ability to communicate how to meet each objective across teams. Organizations cannot afford to be slowed down by inefficient processes. Individuals and teams need to be empowered to design their own processes, manage their work, change course when needed, and make autonomous decisions aligned with organizational goals to ensure business agility in rapidly changing markets.
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Nova is your organization’s new ‘Thinking Operating System’
Think of Nova as the ‘thinking operating system’ of your organization, where your valuable processes are built and visualized, iterated upon, and protected. Build your workflow in Nova and collaborate on it with your team, use it to onboard new employees, and use it to keep the company knowledge base in one place when employees leave.
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Invite your team, clients, and freelancers
Invite your team, clients, and freelancers and capture everyone’s knowledge and ideas in one place.
Keep everyone accountable
Add session duration and due dates and invite your team to each session to start and finish on time. Keep your team accountable and self-managing with our automation and automatic reminders.
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Notes, documents, and conclusions – organized
Documents, forms, conclusions, and resources are integrated automatically in the process so you can find documents and conclusions whenever you need them.
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Whiteboards to lead meetings and visualize ideas – a whiteboard you never have to erase
Lead your meetings and discussions using a digital whiteboard and our card decks. Our whiteboard includes features like sticky notes, timers, tasks, templates, stickers, call rooms, etc
Manage your tasks
Find all your tasks organized by due date in “My tasks” or in your projects or Kanban boards. Filter tasks by status and take action when tasks require your attention.
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