Viva Cyte Suite Software Platform by Livia Stevenin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Silver A' Design Award in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design Competition Category.
SilverInterface· 2025
Viva Cyte Suite Software Platform
Client: Cellply
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Interface Category
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About Viva Cyte Suite Software Platform
Viva Cyte is an advanced software platform designed to streamline cell therapy development by integrating automation, high throughput analysis, and an intuitive user experience. It consists of Control Software (CSW) for managing biological tests and Analytical Software (ASW) for extracting meaningful insights. AI-driven automation reduces human error, improves accuracy, and enhances usability, enabling researchers to navigate complex workflows efficiently while accelerating therapeutic advancements.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Viva Cyte Suite Software Platform is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Viva Cyte Suite Software Platform is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Viva Cyte Suite Software Platform is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
Where to Get It
UX/UI Design for Healthcare and Biotech Interfaces
We specialize in designing intuitive interfaces for complex healthcare and biotech applications. With expertise in AI-driven systems, user research, and workflow optimization, we transform technical requirements into elegant, user-friendly solutions that enhance efficiency and accuracy.
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Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
We aimed to create a design that was efficient and capable of supporting complex workflows without disrupting the users' existing processes. The design needed to be intuitive, enhancing their work by leveraging opportunities and improving the overall effort required for each task. Visually, it had to be as simple as possible, given the amount of information it needed to convey and its inherent complexity. Above all, the design needed to be user-friendly, ensuring a seamless and intuitive experience for the users.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The main focus was efficiency and users' needs. The users were accustomed to their existing methods and tools, so introducing new software was a challenge and initially met with some skepticism, especially given the sensitive nature of the sector and the materials involved. However, we developed the design in close collaboration with the users, paying careful attention to the details that mattered most to them. By ensuring that their feedback was heard and reflected in the software, we were able to create a sense of partnership, allowing them to feel as though we were building the solution together to enhance their workflow and improve their work.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
The design is already being used by the client, and we plan to continue refining it and adding new features as new needs arise.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The project focused on UX/UI design for two integrated software solutions: Control Software (CSW) for launching and managing biological tests and Analytical Software (ASW) for extracting key insights from results. The design prioritizes scalability, usability, and automation and enables researchers to navigate complex workflows, configure tests, and analyze data with minimal effort, streamlining the entire process.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Design: Figma
Front-end: React JS
Design System: Bento - Tags
- Cell therapy software, AI-driven automation, biomedical research, UX/UI design, data-driven, workflow optimization, healthcare innovation, regulatory compliance, user-centered design
- Production Technology
- We conducted extensive user research to design VivaCyte's software suite, including shadowing biologists in labs and interviewing end-users to understand their workflows and challenges. We also organized User Journey Mapping workshops, bringing together biologists and development teams to foster collaboration and gather diverse perspectives. The insights from these activities guided the creation of a custom design system, ensuring consistency and usability across the platforms.
- Design Challenge
- Designing VivaCyte posed challenges in balancing usability, automation, and compliance. Internally, we had to align complex biological workflows with intuitive design, ensuring seamless lab adoption. Externally, strict medical regulations require adherence to compliance standards. Limited industry precedents and evolving AI capabilities pushed us to innovate with user research, iterative prototyping, and AI-driven automation, overcoming barriers in technology and regulatory constraints.
- Research
- We conducted user research to enhance VivaCyte’s usability and efficiency. Using shadowing and interviews, we observed lab workflows and identified pain points. Data was collected via on-site studies, journey mapping, and prototype testing with biologists and technicians. Insights led to features like printable maps and a guided setup walkthrough, reducing errors and improving efficiency. The research optimized workflows, accelerating cell therapy development.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the need to accelerate cancer cell therapies, VivaCyte was designed to streamline workflows, reduce human error, and enhance patient care. Recognizing the challenges of complex, labour-intensive workflows in cell therapy development, we sought to create a solution that integrates advanced automation, high-throughput analysis, and intuitive design. The design prioritizes usability and scalability, enabling researchers and clinicians to focus on innovation rather than constraints.
- Project Duration
- The project started in January 2022 in Milan and finished in August 2024.
- Operation Flow
- VivaCyte streamlines cell therapy workflows through an intuitive, automated interface. Users launch tests via the Control Software (CSW), which configures experiments that can be followed in real-time, while the Analytical Software (ASW) extracts biological insights and displays them. AI-driven automation minimizes errors, ensuring accuracy and efficiency. Designed for seamless interaction, it simplifies complex tasks, accelerates data analysis, and enhances usability.
- Team Members
- Designer: Sara Bianchini
Designer: Livia Stevenin
Designer: Agnese Ragucci - Image Credits
- Image #1: Mockup: Designed by Freepik, Image: Livia Stevenin (UX/UI designer), Image #2: Livia Stevenin (UX/UI designer), Image #3: Livia Stevenin (UX/UI designer), Image #4: Livia Stevenin (UX/UI designer), Image #5: Livia Stevenin (UX/UI designer),
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