The slides from our recent webinar on how User Experience can build better software for life sciences. The webinar can be viewed here:
http://www.pistoiaalliance.org/pistoia-alliance-debates-webinar-series/#WatchAgain
3. Chair and Panel
Mikko-Pekka Hanski, Customer Experience Strategist, Co-
founder at Idean
Mikko-Pekka Hanski is one of the co-founders of the fastest growing design
company, Idean. For over 15 years, he has helped companies find effective and
inspirational ways to understand their customers. His unique way of crystallising
complicated challenges and turning them into actionable strategies has made
him a true experience design pioneer not only in his native Finland, but
throughout the world.
Chair:
Simon Fortenbacher, UX Consultant, GSK
Simon leads the R&D Tech UX Centre of Excellence, a team
focusing on improving the user experience of applications
used by GSK’s Pharma R&D community. Simon is also on the
Steering Committee of the UXLS project.
4. Panelists contd.
Joel Miller, UX lead at Amgen
Joel is a User Experience Lead at Amgen, one of the world’s leading
biopharmaceutical companies. Joel has been a vocal and influential user-
centered design practitioner throughout his career in the Life Sciences
industry.
Ewan Birney, Director of EMBL-EBI
Ewan Birney is Director of EMBL-EBI with Dr Rolf Apweiler, and runs a small
research group. He played a vital role in annotating the genome sequences of
human, mouse, chicken and several other organisms; this work has had a
profound impact on our understanding of genomic biology.
5. Agenda
Panelist Description
Simon Fortenbacher Welcome
Mikko-Pekka Hanski Introduction to User Experience in
Life Sciences
Ewan Birney The EBI UX story
Joel Miller The UX for the Life Sciences project
Simon Fortenbacher Audience Q&A
6. Poll:
What is your level of UX Expertise?
o Knowledgeable
o Somewhat knowledgeable
o Not very knowledgeable
13. The User Experience for Life Sciences project
Joel Miller
Source: Robert Slowley Photography
14. Practicing UX in a lab
environment is challenging
Image credit: UNMEER CC-BY-ND 2.0
15. UX Design: Maximising the value of scientific software in life science R&D by J. Cham & K. Costa
UX is a relatively new discipline in the life
sciences and teams are small
16. UX teams and skills are in demand
Image credit: “Queue” by Richard Summers CC-BY-ND 2.0
“UX in Life Sciences” aims to help fill the gap
17. UX in Life Sciences (UXLS) Goals
• Foster a community to share best practices
• Build a UX toolkit specifically for the life
sciences
• Raise awareness of the value of UX
Image credit: “3D Bullseye” by ccPixs.com CC BY-ND 2.0
20. UXLS toolkit consists of
• Key UX Methods for R&D life sciences
• Case studies
• Life Science considerations
Image credit: “Tools” by R. Downey CC-BY 2.0
25. • Release in January 2018
• Will have 10 UX methods and 6 case studies
• Stay connected:
• Project manager: paula.dematos@pistoiaalliance.org
• Project page: http://www.pistoiaalliance.org/projects/uxls/
• UXLS Drug Discovery World publication: UX Design
maximising the value of scientific software in the life science R&D
by J. Cham and K. Costa
What’s next for the UXLS Toolkit
The next question you are surely thinking is Why on earth would you even need such a community?
There are hundreds of UX communities conferences etc… to keep in touch with other UX professionals.
There must be hundreds of life science communities. Your community is virtual and even harder to keep in touch with?
In order to explain why I have to explain how we came about?
The lab environment and R&D life sciences poses extra challenges for a UX practioners. This shared knowledge is not something we can easily pick up at a UX conference but is quite domain specfiic.
We can save each other a lot of time and headaches by sharing knowledge.
UX in the life sciences is not as mature as other industry verticals
UX teams are under resourced and heavily in demand.
To the point where they are making UX resources available to teams in order to supply some of the demand.
The UXLS community has the following aims:
Share best practices within the R&D life sciences
Consolidate UX resources and knowledge
UX therapy
Raise awareness of UX in the R&D life sciences
Here are a list of project companies involved in the project. So one thing that is noticeable is that they are primarily all
Note that most of these companies are competitors. Yes you heard right. These UX’ers are collaborating and competing!
How on earth does that work?
The first UXLS workshop was hosted jointly by EMBL-EBI Industry Programme and the Pistoia Alliance. It was held in Hinxton, Cambridge in September 2016.
We discover the following during the workshop
Like minded individual's struggling with the same battles
The level of UX understanding varies from organisation to organisation but its comparatively low in comparison to other industry verticals
Here we have a preview of our homepage. This is still likely to change
Here we have a preview of our homepage. This is still likely to change