INTERACTIVE DEVELOPMENT SAMPLES

Project: Visual Synthesis Maps
Client: Macmillan Learning
Details: The Visual Synthesis Maps use an intuitive, Google Maps-like interface to transform static textbook figures into immersive environments. The Maps unveil the inner workings of cells, ecosystems, and more through a combination of eye-catching art, digital micrograph imagery, as well as narrated animations and simulations.
Notes: The video tour* provides a brief glimpse at several Visual Synthesis Maps, designed and developed between 2018–2022, which cover topics in biology ranging from evolution to protein synthesis. (*Please contact me for a demo of the actual interactives, which are only accessible behind a paywall.)
Roles: Project management, creative concepting, storyboarding, content editing, and talent coordination

Project: Bio 101 Activities
Client: Macmillan Learning
Details: Freshmen biology students often struggle to remember concepts from their high school biology classes. So, the Bio 101 Activities (like this one about identifying animal cell structures and their functions) quiz students' knowledge about key biology topics in a low-stakes, game-like interface, where wrong answers aren't penalized, and feedback/reinforcement is provided along the way.
Roles: Project management, content editing, and talent coordination

ANIMATION/VIDEO SAMPLES

Project: Journey Through the Human Kidney
Client: Macmillan Learning
Details: This hyper-realistic, 3-minute animation uses custom 3D imagery, sound effects, title graphics, and narration to take college biology students on an engaging, log flume-like ride through the human kidney.
Roles: Project management, creative conceptualization, storyboarding/script editing, audio editing, and talent coordination

Project: Biology 2D Animations
Client: Macmillan Learning
Details: The 2D Animations use a simple, slideshow-like layout, animated figures, and friendly narration to make key biological concepts easy to understand for non-majors biology students (i.e., students who are enrolled in biology courses as a general college requirement). This particular animation helps students understand a relatively new gene-editing process, called "CRISPR."
Roles: Project management, creative conceptualization, scriptwriting/storyboarding, and talent coordination

Project: Case Study Podcasts
Client: Macmillan Learning
Details: This new podcast series, which accompanies eight case studies in the textbook Biology: How Life Works, features interviews with exceptional scientists—with a particular focus on female and minority researchers, whose voices and contributions to the world of science have been overlooked too often.
Roles: Project management, production, talent coordination, and audio editing