I DO User Experience Research & Design for Life Science
I am a freelance consultant delivering tailored “Gamestorming”-style workshops, focus groups, brainstorming & graphic recording (aka sketchnoting). I train others in UX, workshop facilitation methods and sketchnoting. I was previously the Lead User Experience Architect at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) near Cambridge, UK. I love science, creativity and get curious when I don’t understand things.
I offer:
Leadership and management
- leading UX efforts at the level of strategy, policy and management
- collating, reporting and presenting recommendations to senior management and stakeholders
user-centered design projects
- conceiving design and functionality within technical constraints, often working directly with software development teams
- leading persona development work with teams
- overseeing design and execution of usability testing and paper prototyping
- executing expert review of websites
Workshops and sketchnoting
- design and facilitation of user workshops and focus groups
- creative game-storming and problem solving
- create sketchnotes and graphic recordings to increase the effectiveness of meetings
Visual design
- interface design, prototyping and wire frames
Information architecture
- overseeing design and execution of card sorting
- conceptualising and running information architecture games
Expertise in life sciences and informatics
- expert knowledge in computational biology/ bioinformatics
- experience working with scientific user communities, in particular with bioscience, medical researchers and the pharmaceutical research and development
- experience in delivering user-centered design solutions in a technical environment
Bringing usability to a complex domain 