Human-Centered Design for the Efficient Management of Smart Genomic Information

Genomics is a massive and complex domain that requires great efforts to extract valuable knowledge. Due to the reduction in sequencing costs and the advent of Next Generation Sequencing, the amount of publicly available genomics data has increased notably. These data are complex and heterogeneous, which makes the development of intuitive and usable tools critical. However, bioinformatics tools have been developed without oncsidering usability and User Interface design. As a result, there are relevant usability problems that complicate the work of bioinformaticians. Human-Centered Design consists of a design approach that grounds the User Interface design process on the needs and desires of users and can be a suitable solution to improve the usability of new genomics tools. This work shows how intuitive and usable bioinformatics tools can be produced using HCD principles.