WeCare
UX & Visual Design
A speculative healthcare system for the genomic age — desktop software for clinicians and a companion app for patients, built on P4 medicine. Winner of the ECU Health Design Award.
We Care is a speculative healthcare system I designed as my graduation project — a vision of what personalized, genomic-age medicine could feel like for the people inside it. It is two products in one: desktop software for the clinical teams running genomic studies, and a companion app that puts those insights into patients’ hands. Guided by computational biologist Mehrdad Moosavi and mentored by Dr. Janessa Laskin (co-lead of the POG program), the project won the ECU Health Design Award for Service.
- Role
- UX · Visual Design · Prototyping · Animation
- Context
- Emily Carr University — grad project
- Timeline
- Sep 2022 – May 2023
- Recognition
- ECU Health Design Award for Service
The Problem
I became fascinated by how design could shape healthcare and biotech — and how rarely those fields were designed around the people using them. We Care started from three gaps.
One-size-fits-all care
Healthcare still leans on a generalized model that prioritizes treatment over prevention. It struggles to adapt to the individual — exactly where genomic medicine promises the most.
Insight patients can’t reach
People face real friction understanding their own health risks, let alone acting on them. Without accessible insight, informed decisions stay out of reach.
Tools clinicians fight with
On the other side, clinicians and researchers wrestle with complex data and a shortage of capable, GUI-based tools for genomic work. The analysis is hard enough without the interface making it harder.
The Vision
We Care answers those gaps with one connected system, grounded in the principles of P4 medicine.
A personalized, connected system
Speculative software and app solutions for a healthcare system that integrates genomic insight and empowers people to manage their health proactively — the clinic and the individual, working from the same picture.
Built on P4 medicine
Personalized, Predictive, Preventive, and Participatory — the four principles that reframe patients from recipients of care into active participants in it.
Identity
A speculative product still needs to feel real. The brand had to carry both the science and the care.
Mapping your journey, one strand at a time
The “W” in We Care is drawn as a ribbon that reads as a DNA strand — genomics and personalized care folded into a single mark. As a speculative project, rapid, agile prototyping and user testing let me explore and validate the direction quickly.
The Software
For the clinic: a desktop platform that turns genomic pipelines into something a team can actually drive.
GUI tools over raw pipelines
The software pairs intuitive, GUI-based computational tools with genomic analysis pipelines, using data-driven digital-twin technology to turn sequence data into personalized health insight — including AI-powered drug simulations.
A workspace for genomic research
A calm, professional visual language and a collapsible tool sidebar hold a full suite together — file explorer, visual scripting, genome viewer, predisposition, disease pathways, and drug analysis — so teams move from data to insight without losing their place.
The App
For the individual: a companion app that hands the same insight back to the person it belongs to.
Health in your pocket
The app brings genomic insight and wearable-tech data together into personalized recommendations, goal tracking, and progress monitoring — a softer, warmer visual language built to earn trust.
Track, set goals, and share
A home that surfaces today’s activities, metrics, and an education hub; a My Metrics view to personalize what you follow; goals with tailored reminders; and a profile that lets you bring your care team into the loop.
What I learned
Designing speculative futures
Precision medicine is full of promise and still far from arriving. Designing for it meant imagining responsibly — and keeping solutions scalable and adaptable rather than merely aspirational.
Two perspectives, one system
Designing for the clinician and the care-seeker at once — while respecting how sensitive health data is — taught me to hold dual perspectives, and rapid prototyping taught me to turn ideas into validated designs fast.
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