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.

## **Climate change is here,** and we need data-driven tools to make good adaptation decisions.

## **Climate change is the existential threat of our time.** I was the UX designer as Google.org explored how we might use our technology to organize and make climate data accessible and useful in the effort to adapt.

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A small team at Google.org hatched an ambitious plan to organize the world’s meteorological and climate data. We wanted to develop a data platform and application-authoring environment to help organizations translate science into practice for climate change adaptation.

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We collaborated with climate and agriculture scientists doing the hard work to help the world understand and adapt to climate change. Our project ultimately didn’t proceed at the scale we wanted, but did demonstrate some of the power of technology and design for software to aid in climate change adaptation.

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To varying degrees of completeness, flows, frameworks, and user interfaces were created for everything from massively collaborative data collection, scientific application authoring, consumer search of weather and climate data, generalized model exploration, and more. With scientist participation, I designed sophisticated user interfaces to search and visualize vast quantities of both historic and modeled climatological data from heterogenous sources.

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Here’s a climate model exploration interface based on  Photoshop’s Variations tool.

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I was the sole designer on the project, bridging the scientific, technological, and user experience dimensions of everything we worked on, in collaboration with Amy Luers and Lacy Caruthers. I facilitated workshops with climate scientists, was part of a team who conducted field research in South Africa, Malawi, Uganda, and Kenya, and passionately advocated for the project internally at Google.org.

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Climate change is here, and we need data-driven tools to make good adaptation decisions.

Climate data platform

Product designer