Author Victor Yocco & Angelica Lo Duca

Victor is a Philadelphia-based researcher, author, and speaker. His book Design for the Mind is available from Manning Publications. Victor frequently writes and speaks on the application of psychology to design and user research.

Angelica Lo Duca, PhD, is a researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the National Research Council, Italy. She is also an adjunct professor of Data Journalism at the University of Pisa. She has published over 60 scientific papers at national and international conferences and journals. She is the author of the book Comet for Data Science (Packt Publishing Ltd, 2022), co-author of Learning and Operating Presto (O’Reilly Media, 2023), Data Storytelling with Altair and AI (Manning Publications, 2024), Become a Great Data Storyteller (Wiley, 2025), and the forthcoming book Learning Generative AI Tools for Excel (O’Reilly Media, 2026).