Ophidia began as a portfolio project and developed into a six-month collaboration with Dr. Peter Uetz, curator of the Reptile Database, and researcher Dan Durback. I was brought on to design a mobile app that could identify snakes using observable traits - something researchers, conservationists, and field crews could actually use offline.
What started as a simple filter evolved into a working prototype that currently handles over 600 species. Every part of it, from the database schema to the interface, was built from scratch with field usability in mind.