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9+ years building toolsscientists actually use

I am a product designer and frontend engineer. I’ve helped labs and R&D teams whose platforms were still looking for their users, by building how scientists explore, model, simulate and trace their data. The result: 1,200+ virtual labs in 18 months at the Open Brain Institute, and data viewed up from 14% to 94% on Nexus Fusion.

What the work made possible

8+years

Designing and shipping complex digital products from research and strategy to production.

32features

18months

User needs translated into shipped features at the Open Brain Institute.

1,200+Virtual Labs

Created on the OBI platform in the 18 months since its March 2025 launch.

86% to 8%bounce

On OBI's circuit viewer, after research-led view modes and a provenance map.

12universities

Partnering with the Open Brain Institute in Europe, the USA and China.

36,000+users

Citizens reached through PartOf across 3 cantons and 52 communes.

+12%users

Increase in adoption following my work on two Nissan digital products.

1563+paying customers

LO-OL customers served through a product ecosystem I helped design, build, and operate end-to-end.

Explore

Prototype first

I constantly push stakeholders to build a prototype or a proof of concept before any pure design work, to test the value proposition and the business plan.

Challenge the brief with evidence

When a decision rests on habit, I question it with data and prototypes. On Fusion, I asked three engineers to measure usage: 86% of published data had never been viewed. That gave me the evidence to refuse reducing the product to a search box and an API.

Make decisions that last

I recommend a direction, defend it, and build the strategy to get it adopted. On OBI, I replaced a 3D brain with a layer-by-layer 2D view, and the circuit viewer’s bounce rate fell from 86% to 8%. I also refused to open labs to guests, so a lab stays a space for administration and budget.

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