New industry research inspired by a Pistoia Alliance initiative Since March 2016 I have been involved in an exciting new Pistoia Alliance group called User Experience for Life Sciences (UXLS). It’s a collaborative project looking into UX for scientific software in…
The problem with names… Years ago, I remember looking at Facebook for the first time to set up an account and typing in “Jenny Cham” to see if there were other people already using the same name. There were loads…
In September 2014, fellow UX-in-Science aficionado Paula de Matos and I presented a ‘think tank’ session on intellectual property at the UX Cambridge conference. This post recaps what we learned and includes feedback from a representative of the European Patent…
I’m very happy to say that PLoS Computational Biology Journal have just published our latest article: “Ten Simple Rules for Running Interactive Workshops”. Our piece is this month’s featured paper too, which we are thrilled about! (Issue front page is…
This past Friday on the Genome Campus, Dr Anna Middleton of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute gave an interesting seminar about the method and findings of a survey she had delivered about genome ethics. I was interested because I use…
At a recent talk by Elspeth Bruford entitled “Gene naming in the past, present and future“, I learned about the process for naming genes. Elspeth works in the HUPO Gene Nomenclature Committe (HGNC) team, which is based at EMBL-EBI. Check…
EMBL-EBI recently hosted Mark Crowe of QFAB for a talk about Bioinformatics in Australia, which I sketchnoted. It was interesting to hear about the challenges that are faced over there; in particular, the huge distances between cities and the…
Paula de Matos and I are looking forward to presenting a session on ‘complex UX’ at the UX Cambridge 2013 conference next week. The conference is being held at Churchill College, Cambridge and includes a UX bake off social event…
Today I gave a talk at the ISMB/ECCB 2013 Conference in Berlin, and I would like to share the sketchnote of the talk with you. This was sketched by my colleague Francis Rowland (whilst I practised my talk before attending…
I love Adobe InDesign, and my latest creation using it is a poster that I will be presenting at ISMB/ECCB 2013 (International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology/ European Conference on Computational Biology), which is taking place between…