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Thermo Fisher ScientificSenior UX / XD Visual Designer2017 — 2018

Thermo
Fisher

Serving the scientific community with considered design — a beacon experience and re-imagined search to help cancer scientists find the right antibody.

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Role
Senior UX / XD Visual Designer · Lead
Team
Internal & external partners
Scope
Antibody vertical · search & journey
Workflow
Journey mapping · prototyping
01 — Context

Serving the scientific community with considered design

Our work on Thermo Fisher’s Antibody experience had two purposes. First, Thermo Fisher wanted a beacon experience — illustrating how their entire platform could evolve to more effectively help cancer scientists purchase antibodies. Second, we needed to ship search improvements that worked today.

We took a step back. What was missing wasn’t features or UI polish — it was a careful consideration of how scientists make decisions throughout their journey.

"Focusing on what scientists need at each moment."
02 — Experience strategy

Find → Decide → Buy

After talking to several scientists and subject-matter experts, we synthesized the journey of a scientist’s entire experimental process. Using that as a framework, we zoomed in to the key stages of purchase — knowing the experience could later expand to address the broader needs of the experiment.

The resulting journey — Find → Decide → Buy — and the scientist’s particular considerations at each point shaped what each step of the experience needed to accomplish.

journey / find-decide-buy.md
// the scientist's purchase journey Find — search tuned to research intent Decide — clear comparison & validation Buy — fast, confident purchase // each stage designed for a different mindset
03 — Delivery

Re-imagined search

From the journey work, we delivered re-imagined search capabilities that drove a faster, clearer purchasing experience — tuned to how scientists actually evaluate antibodies for their work, not how a typical e-commerce site assumes shoppers behave.

04 — Outcome

Impact

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Even one hard number lands hard here.

James Barraza — San Diego County, CA [email protected] · /in/james-barraza