Can fast, interactive, information-rich data visualization help scientists make sense of genome-scale experiments?

Web applications can finally handle genome-scale biological data. Even your iPhone does on-the-fly machine learning.

From 0 to 1, a platform to streamline + speed up scientific collaboration and routine genomics analysis.

Dropbox has drag-and-drop interaction. Suddenly, it makes sense for science too.

Applying design to multiple facets of a cutting-edge scientific environment.

The modern era, but biology is still catching up.

Defining the front door of every Google search, in every space.

People still used Internet Explorer—for real.

How could we up-level design skill and knowledge across Google?

Barely one year into Obama’s first term. People were listening to Rihanna sing about finding love in a hopeless place. The iPhone 3GS was the hottest thing.

How could statistical data be brought directly into search results?

Web 2.0 is still pretty new, but animation, interactivity, and more data are coming to even the previously static Google Search UI.

How could Google provide a complementary pandemic early-warning resource?

Google Chrome hadn’t yet come out, Web 2.0 was still a thing. Android was brand new.

With a pandemic rising, how could Google respond for the public benefit?

As if the financial crisis wasn’t enough, here was a potentially serious pandemic.

How could Google help communities adapt to climate change?

The era of ”Big Data,” and just getting a handle on how to structure it.

What could a modern, people-centered and research-informed medication website be?

People were listening on their iPhone 6 to Hotline Bling.

How could we bring clarity to the scary and foggy process of antidepressant treatment?

Portable tech was coming of age—it was the year of the Apple Watch.

How might we bring straightforward language to medical-jargon filled web pages?

Folks might have been dancing to Happy by Pharrell Williams.

What should a modern, developer-friendly government data transparency effort do?

Governments were just starting to adopt modern technologies, and yes, we still had to support Internet Explorer.

Custodian of the authoritative source on Mac user interface design.

Apple just released the iPod. Google just got out of beta. If you had a cell phone at all, it was a flip phone.

How could we make time tracking and invoicing simple and beautiful?

A lot of software still came in boxes—on a CD.

## **Design leadership in a cutting-edge scientific environment.**

## **Leveraging design for better biology and science communication.** At Calico, I built bespoke research apps, and brought design know-how to scientific communication.

![Animation of external Calico website for a publication about yeast transcription factors.](/content/projects/calico-research-projects/p_websiteIdea.gif)

One of my projects was an easy-to-use template for researchers to build GitHub Pages-hosted websites to share data and findings, especially to accompany publications. It supports curated content, datasets, and even embedding apps like genome browsers and R Shiny applets, so scientists can mix and match what they need for their website.

Some of our scientific questions benefitted from apps to visualize machine learning model output, including this example that tracks the path of individual cells in microsopy imaging over time.

![Animation of experimental cell-tracking algorithm user interface.](/content/projects/calico-research-projects/p_cellTracking.gif)

Design leadership in a cutting-edge scientific environment.

Calico research projects