It’s not every day that you get to work on a project as ambitious, challenging, and full of potential as the Pyxa Platform from Stellaromics. And it’s certainly not every day that you get to collaborate with such a talented and driven team.
At UXDivers, we’re incredibly proud and grateful to have supported Stellaromics in designing the interface for their platform, a solution that has the potential to change how single-cell gene expression is visualized and understood.
Stellaromics is a biotechnology company pioneering high-resolution spatial genomics.
Their mission is to unlock a deeper understanding of biology by enabling researchers to map gene expression with subcellular precision.
At the heart of their solution is Pyxa a powerful visualization and analysis platform that translates massive volumes of spatial data into actionable biological insights. Pyxa allows scientists to explore, filter, and interpret complex spatial expression maps in a responsive and intuitive interface.
Much of the foundational research and technology behind Pyxa was developed by a brilliant team of scientists and engineers at Stanford University, working at the intersection of computational biology, bioinformatics, and cutting-edge imaging.
While teams often approach us for our technical expertise in platforms like Avalonia, WPF, .NET MAUI, or Blazor, we believe our greatest value lies elsewhere: in helping highly skilled teams coordinate innovation efforts that are often fragmented or misaligned.
In the case of Pyxa, our role went far beyond visual design. It was about deeply understanding all the moving parts, the people, the processes, the constraints, the motivations, and helping align those diverse perspectives around a shared, user-centered vision.
We worked alongside engineers, computational biologists, visualization specialists, and hardware developers to translate complexity into clarity — not just in the interface, but across the product. We helped prioritize what truly mattered, ensuring that what was essential got built first, and that design became a tool to unify, not just to beautify.
That’s where we believe real product value is created. At the intersection of deep understanding, cross-team alignment, and intentional design.
A few weeks ago, Stellaromics announced an $80 million funding round. Watching the project grow and the team move forward with clarity and strength not only makes us proud, it reinforces our belief that design is not decoration. It’s strategy.
Yes, we built a beautiful human-machine interface (HMI). But what we’re truly proud of is knowing that the UI is just the tip of the iceberg.
Beneath the surface, there was deep work: understanding complex processes, designing for very specific user profiles with varied levels of technical expertise, and considering workflows that don’t just happen on screen, but in the physical world and in direct interaction with hardware.
Designing in this context means listening carefully, reading between the lines, aligning diverse perspectives, and turning all that into a clear, usable, and human experience.
This is the kind of work that drives us. This is the kind of impact we aim for at UXDivers.
Very soon, we’ll be sharing a full case study with key insights, challenges overcome, and lessons learned from this project. Until then, we continue moving forward with focus and purpose, driven by our goal of being the best at what we do.
