Phenotyping Flow is an interaction design project for lab and hospital observation hardware, a full application-flow board mapping how the system's devices, data, and operators connect, paired with the Unifying Controller: a dark-mode interface for launching and running observation sessions on the equipment itself.
The underlying system connects several distinct pieces, observer devices, experiment configurations, connection types, and data capture, into one operator-facing tool. The challenge was making that complexity legible on a single control screen an operator would actually use mid-session, without burying the controls that matter most.
Mapped the full system first: a 13-section application-flow board covering client devices, operator workstations, broadcast/streaming paths, and data storage, before any interface design began. From that map, designed the Unifying Controller as a linear flow, Launch Screen, Select Observer, Select Experience, Before Start, Running, keeping each screen to one clear decision, with connection status (VR, EEG, sound, EMG) always visible at the top.
Information architecture, operator-flow mapping and interface design for connected observation hardware.
The 13-section flow maps devices, experiments, connections and data before reducing each controller screen to one clear operator decision.
The project demonstrates system and interaction design. It remained at the Figma design stage and does not claim a production software implementation.
The application-flow board and the Unifying Controller design are shown above. This project stayed at the Figma design stage, no production code was built for it.
