Animal Transfer & Space Availability Management
Animal Transfer & Space Availability Management
Centralizing Regulatory Request Intake
Preventing Hundreds of Thousands in Annual Facility Waste Through Smarter Space Visibility
Preventing Hundreds of Thousands in Annual Facility Waste Through Smarter Space Visibility
Client
Regeneron
Regeneron
My Role
Lead Product Designer, Business Analyst
Lead Product Designer, Business Analyst
Tools
Figma, Lucidcharts
OVERVIEW
Hundreds of Thousands Lost.
Space Was the Culprit.
Hundreds of Thousands Lost.
Space Was the Culprit.
Hundreds of Thousands Lost.
Space Was the Culprit.
Regeneron's animal facility had a costly blind spot, no one could see which cage space was actually available or track what was coming in and out without chasing emails across disconnected systems.
I partnered with a Business Analyst to design a centralized operational dashboard giving Scientists and Vet Services a single source of truth for space availability and animal transfer management.
Regeneron's animal facility had a costly blind spot, no one could see which cage space was actually available or track what was coming in and out without chasing emails across disconnected systems.
I partnered with a Business Analyst to design a centralized operational dashboard giving Scientists and Vet Services a single source of truth for space availability and animal transfer management.
✅ Real-time space visibility enables VetServices to identify and reclaim space occupied by animals without active experiments
✅ Real-time space visibility enables VetServices to identify and reclaim space occupied by animals without active experiments
✅ Replaced reactive email coordination by a single, unified planning interface
✅ Replaced reactive email coordination by a single, unified planning interface
✅ Hundreds of thousands saved (Projected) in preventable annual facility costs
✅ Hundreds of thousands saved (Projected) in preventable annual facility costs
My role & impact
As Lead Product Designer, I owned end-to-end design, from stakeholder sessions to development-ready prototypes in a 2-week sprint.
Facilitated design validation sessions to uncover critical operational requirements
Designed workflows for two distinct personas (Scientists and VetServices)
Built an interactive rack visualization system with multi-layered space status indicators
Applied progressive disclosure to manage high information density without overwhelming users
Delivered high-fidelity Figma prototypes ready for development handoff
As Lead Product Designer, I owned end-to-end design, from stakeholder sessions to development-ready prototypes in a 2-week sprint.
Facilitated design validation sessions to uncover critical operational requirements
Designed workflows for two distinct personas (Scientists and VetServices)
Built an interactive rack visualization system with multi-layered space status indicators
Applied progressive disclosure to manage high information density without overwhelming users
Delivered high-fidelity Figma prototypes ready for development handoff
PROBLEM
The Cost of Not Knowing What's in Your Own Facility
The Cost of Not Knowing What's in Your Own Facility
The Cost of Not Knowing What's in Your Own Facility
Animals were occupying cage space with no active experiments running. Incoming deliveries were being scheduled with no reliable way to confirm space was actually free.
Animals were occupying cage space with no active experiments running. Incoming deliveries were being scheduled with no reliable way to confirm space was actually free.
❌ Data fragmented across VelociView, Animal Census, and email threads
❌ Data fragmented across VelociView, Animal Census, and email threads
❌ Data fragmented across VelociView, Animal Census, and email threads
❌ Space conflicts discovered after animals were already in transit
❌ Space conflicts discovered after animals were already in transit
❌ Reactive email coordination with no shared visibility
❌ Reactive email coordination with no shared visibility
❌ No single view of what was reserved, occupied, or open in a room
❌ No single view of what was reserved, occupied, or open in a room
Research
No Formal Research Phase. Still Grounded in Real Users.
No Formal Research Phase. Still Grounded in Real Users.
No Formal Research Phase. Still Grounded in Real Users.
Constraint: A 2-week timeline ruled out a traditional research phase. I built on one of the BA's prior stakeholder interviews and ran my own design validation session to test assumptions before any hi-fi work began.
I interviewed a key stakeholder who worked directly alongside both user groups. Then we collaborated and developed personas below.
Constraint: A 2-week timeline ruled out a traditional research phase. I built on one of the BA's prior stakeholder interviews and ran my own design validation session to test assumptions before any hi-fi work began.
I interviewed a key stakeholder who worked directly alongside both user groups. Then we collaborated and developed personas below.
Design
One View. Two Teams. Zero Guesswork.
One View. Two Teams. Zero Guesswork.
One View. Two Teams. Zero Guesswork.
Working iteratively with the BA and a key stakeholder, I designed a split-view operational dashboard that consolidates everything both teams need to make decisions. First I used Claude to refine and plan the initial complex workflows and components.
Working iteratively with the BA and a key stakeholder, I designed a split-view operational dashboard that consolidates everything both teams need to make decisions. First I used Claude to refine and plan the initial complex workflows and components.
Design Decisions
Design Decisions
Design Decisions
Reducing Cognitive Load Scientists process large volumes data daily creating compounding cognitive load over time. To address this, I designed the Incoming Transfer Card with built-in decision support. The system surfaces rack recommendations automatically, highlights consolidation opportunities, and pre-selects the best available option based on capacity and protocol compatibility.
Reducing Cognitive Load Scientists process large volumes data daily creating compounding cognitive load over time. To address this, I designed the Incoming Transfer Card with built-in decision support. The system surfaces rack recommendations automatically, highlights consolidation opportunities, and pre-selects the best available option based on capacity and protocol compatibility.
Color as a Triage System Available cage counts are color-coded across every rack card green (healthy), orange (moderate), red (critically low or full). Teams can scan an entire room at a glance and immediately spot where constraints exist without reading a single number.
Color as a Triage System Available cage counts are color-coded across every rack card green (healthy), orange (moderate), red (critically low or full). Teams can scan an entire room at a glance and immediately spot where constraints exist without reading a single number.
Constraint: Stakeholders wanted predictive analytics, automated alerts, and direct reservation editing. All three were documented and intentionally deferred outside MVP scope given timeline and backend dependencies. The filtering architecture was designed to accommodate these additions in a future release.
We choose not to solve these problems in the two week sprint due to the Value vs. Effort matrices. They would require to much effort and resources at this time.
Constraint: Stakeholders wanted predictive analytics, automated alerts, and direct reservation editing. All three were documented and intentionally deferred outside MVP scope given timeline and backend dependencies. The filtering architecture was designed to accommodate these additions in a future release.
We choose not to solve these problems in the two week sprint due to the Value vs. Effort matrices. They would require to much effort and resources at this time.
RESULTS
What was delivered
What was delivered
This project has not yet launched but stakeholder-validated, development-ready prototypes were delivered on time and within scope.
This project has not yet launched but stakeholder-validated, development-ready prototypes were delivered on time and within scope.
✅ Reactive email coordination replaced by a unified planning interface
✅ Real-time space visibility to proactively reclaim space and address hundreds of thousands in preventable annual costs
✅ Multi-system workflows consolidated into streamlined interactions for both user groups
✅ Reactive email coordination replaced by a unified planning interface
✅ Real-time space visibility to proactively reclaim space and address hundreds of thousands in preventable annual costs
✅ Multi-system workflows consolidated into streamlined interactions for both user groups