BBIMS — Pages built
Biobank Information Management System
Dashboard
Consent Management
Sample Collection
Sample Storage
A biobank discovery platform giving researchers secure access to certified African biobank data. Researchers can search and filter cohorts by disease, sample type and ethnolinguistic group, view cohort composition through data visualisations, and submit access requests directly through the platform.
An internal management system for biobank staff to manage their collections end to end. Covers sample accessioning, collection, processing, storage, retrieval, distribution and disposal — each as a dedicated module. The dashboard gives an overview of inventory, consent status, collection trends and quality metrics.
Biovana is a biotech company building infrastructure for African biobank data. Their work sits at the intersection of genomics, research, and data governance, connecting researchers who need biological samples and datasets with the biobanks across Africa that hold them.
I was brought on to design and build two separate platforms that work together as part of Biovana's ecosystem. No detailed specification was provided. I was handed the problem and trusted to figure out what needed to be built and how.
BioVanaInDex is the public-facing discovery layer, where researchers find and request access to certified datasets. BBIMS is the internal operational layer, where biobank staff manage their collections, track consent, and handle the full sample lifecycle from collection through to distribution and disposal.
Biovana is an example of being handed a problem rather than a brief. There was no detailed specification and two very different audiences to design for simultaneously — researchers browsing publicly and biobank staff working operationally. I had to figure out what each platform needed to do and build it from scratch.
Scientific and data-heavy products have their own design logic: density without clutter, hierarchy without decoration, credibility without coldness. Both platforms were designed in Figma and built in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, deployed on Netlify.