Powering biologists’s minds to make discoveries.

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

Point and click analysis for transcriptomics/differential expression.

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

The modern era, but biology is still catching up.

The standard for search suggestion & results

People still used Internet Explorer—for real.

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.

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

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

Google plays a huge role in public emergencies, like pandemics. We worked with HHS to provide public health guidance and to direct people to resources like flu vaccine clinics

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

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

Empowering people to find what works, faster

People were listening on their iPhone 6 to Hotline Bling.

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

Folks might have been dancing to Happy by Pharrell Williams.

A new standard for open public health data

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

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.

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

## Design know-how **for better scientific communication and research.**

## **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 know-how for better scientific communication and research.

Calico research projects

Designer and developer