Myriscope
Myriscope is a web app designed for researchers to quickly grasp the key ideas in a newly posted academic papers and preprints.
Fernando Becerra, an astrophysicist, data analyst and programmer working in our studio, recognized that when an expert is deep in their field of research, quickly skimming a paper’s figures is enough to get a sense of its premise and relevance.
Myriscope gathers and consolidates the abstracts, sections and figures from arXiv and bioRxiv articles and pulls them into a streamlined, customizable feed of the latest literature.
Typically, the digital presentation of scholarly articles has little to no information hierarchy, making it difficult for readers to distinguish the signal from the noise.
Here, we’ve made the salient pieces of that buried information easy to access and understand. Myriscope extracts the figures from each paper, tracks down the referring captions, and assembles them into a interactive gallery.
I designed Myriscope’s interface to make the reading experience structured, informative and inviting — and worked closely with Fernando and the rest of the team to develop intuitive and fluid interactions for the tool.
Alongside the interface design and interactivity, I developed the brand identity and drew the icons, illustrations and animations.
Fonts: Transat Text, custom icons.