UX/UI designer focused on information design.
Transforming complex information into intuitive experiences.
Work
Designing AI-assisted diagnostic experiences for one of the world’s leading digital dentistry platforms. As one of two UX/UI designers, I designed workflows, information architecture, and visualizations that helped dentists interpret AI-generated findings and communicate diagnoses.
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The Great Migration
The Great Migration reshaped American geography over seven decades, but most representations are static, text-heavy, and miss the evolution that makes the shift legible.
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Role: Independent information designer.
Period: 2026
Scope: Historical research, data preparation, narrative structure, interaction design, visual design, development and testing.
Context
In 1900, nearly 90% of Black Americans lived in the South. By 1970, decades of migration had fundamentally redrawn the country’s demographic landscape. Driven by changing economic opportunities and racial violence, millions relocated to northern and western cities, reshaping communities across the United States.
Most representations of the Great Migration focus on isolated moments or static maps, making it difficult to understand how these changes unfolded over time and across different geographic scales.
Approach
Rather than presenting a single before/after map, I designed the visualization around time as the primary dimension. Using historical Census records, I calculated the Black population as a percentage of each state’s total population, then grouped the states by region and averaged their percentages by decade. These decennial snapshots reveal gradual demographic shifts that would otherwise disappear in a static representation.
To help users interpret the data, I structured the experience around three complementary perspectives:
- Time, revealing how migration evolved decade by decade.
- Geography, showing how population patterns shifted across the United States.
- Scale, allowing readers to move between national, regional, and state-level views.
Together, these perspectives show not only where migration occurred, but how it unfolded over seventy years.
Key design decisions
1. Maintaining consistency across decades
Using the same visual language, geographic structure, and scales throughout the experience makes each decade directly comparable. Readers can move through time while keeping a consistent point of reference.
2. Connecting demographic change with history
Each decade combines demographic data with the events that influenced migration. Presenting the two major waves within the same visual system makes it possible to see how different historical conditions shaped distinct migration patterns.
3. Balancing narrative and exploration
Rather than prescribing a single way through the story, the experience combines a clear historical sequence with opportunities for exploration. Readers can follow the broader narrative or look more closely at regional patterns, individual states, and exact values.
Data: U.S. Census Bureau decennial records, 1900–1970. Historical context: National Archives, Smithsonian Magazine, and Harvard University.
sibling position study
The idea behind this project is to explore how birth order influences the way you behave in relationships. Inspired by Giorgia Lupi’s Data Humanism approach, I wanted to explore the behavioural patterns shaped by our position among siblings (including the experience of being an only child). The research focuses on Gen Z and Millennials: the intention is to observe behaviours that are still in motion, not overly rationalised or shaped by time, but raw, intuitive, and evolving.
This project is ongoing. You can contribute to the research by taking the test here.
women in afghanistan
Women’s rights in Afghanistan are often reported as isolated news events, making it difficult to understand the cumulative impact of years of legislative change. This editorial poster transforms fragmented reporting into a single visual narrative that reveals the systematic dismantling of women’s rights since August 2021.
Context
Since the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, Afghan women have faced a systematic dismantling of their rights in education, employment, mobility, and public life. Although these events have been widely documented, they are often consumed individually through news headlines. Without historical context, it’s difficult to understand the cumulative pace and scale of these restrictions.
Approach
Rather than focusing on a single event, I wanted to communicate the progression of these changes over time.
The poster combines a chronological timeline, supporting statistics, and editorial illustrations to create a single visual narrative. Every day since August 2021 is embedded into the background, subtly reinforcing the duration and persistence of the restrictions.
Sources: Human Rights Watch, UN Women, Amnesty International, Le Monde, The Times.
fashion trends
Fashion trends rarely emerge overnight. They leave digital traces across search behaviour, runway collections, and cultural references long before they reach the mainstream. This project combines these signals to explore how fashion aesthetics evolved throughout 2024.
Each spread combines search trends with editorial imagery and runway references to examine how an aesthetic emerged, evolved, and reached mainstream culture. Alongside each trend, a colour analysis extracts the dominant palette from runway collections to reveal seasonal shifts across the fashion industry.
Sources: Vogue, Pantone, Who What Wear, Marie Claire, GQ, Google Trends, and The Trend Spotter.
danish territories
Denmark’s colonial history is often taught through isolated events or individual territories, making it difficult to understand the full geographical scale of its empire. This project brings together historical maps and archival data to visualize Denmark’s colonial network across four centuries, revealing how territories, trade, and political control evolved over time.
Context
Denmark established colonies and trading posts across four continents, from Greenland and the Faroe Islands to the Danish Gold Coast, the West Indies, and settlements in India.
Although this history spans more than four centuries, it is rarely presented as a single geographical system. Looking at each territory independently obscures the scale and structure of Denmark’s colonial network.
Approach
Rather than documenting each colony separately, I wanted to visualize the Danish colonial empire as an interconnected system.
The map combines geography with historical context, showing each territory’s period of control, colonial role, principal traded goods, and path to independence. Bringing these layers together reveals how a relatively small European nation maintained a global colonial network over several centuries.
Sources: Danmarkshistorien, National Museum of Denmark, colonialvoyage.com, postkolonial.dk.
Gradient carousel
An experimental image carousel controlled through hand tracking. Built with Claude Code, MediaPipe, and Three.js, this prototype explores how gesture-based interactions can replace traditional scrolling. Point to navigate. Pinch to select.
Open in a new tab.Type tool
An interactive typography playground built with Codex to explore AI-assisted creative development. Draw a path, generate animated lettering, and edit it in real time.
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pretty in pink
How does gender inequality accumulate over a lifetime? This editorial project combines research from sociology, economics, and public health to visualize the structural barriers women encounter from childhood to older adulthood. Through four chapters, it reveals how inequalities compound over time rather than existing as isolated events.
Rather than drawing from a single dataset, the project synthesizes research across sociology, economics, public health, and labor studies, pulling from sources including UNICEF, UN Women, the OECD, and academic literature, to build a cross-disciplinary picture of systemic inequality.
Each chapter pairs key statistics with editorial illustration and a consistent visual language: a monochrome photographic centerpiece, pink-accented data callouts, and section-based breakdowns across categories like health, finances, work, and safety.
olive oil in europe
Europe dominates the global olive oil market, yet that dominance is shaped by a complex network of production, trade, consumption, and pricing. This project explores how olive oil moves across Europe through a series of connected visualizations that reveal the relationships behind one of the region’s largest agricultural industries.
Approach
Rather than focusing on a single metric, I wanted to understand the olive oil market as an interconnected system.
The publication combines maps, statistical graphics, and a Sankey diagram to compare production, consumption, international trade, and price trends. Looking at these perspectives together reveals patterns that would be difficult to identify through individual charts alone.
Sources: International Olive Council, Statista, Eurostat, OEC.
romane / antoni
Romane is a display serif exploring the intersection of AI-assisted generation and traditional type design. The project began with Midjourney images inspired by ancient Greco-Roman letterforms, which served as the starting point for hand-drawn sketches before being refined digitally into a contemporary display typeface.
Antoni is a display typeface inspired by Catalan Modernism and the ornamental language of Antoni Gaudí. Begun during a trip to Barcelona, the project explores expressive curves, high stroke contrast, and decorative ligatures, translating architectural forms into a contemporary typeface.
nãra
Nãra is a conceptual skincare brand exploring the relationship between botanical ingredients and refined minimalism. The identity combines expressive typography with restrained natural references to create a premium visual language that feels both contemporary and organic.
Rather than leaning into a rustic aesthetic, the design relies on typography to establish refinement while hand-drawn botanical elements introduce warmth and character. The visual system extends across logo variants, product labels, packaging, and social media assets, creating a cohesive identity across every touchpoint.
pasta consumption
Pasta is one of the world’s most traded and widely consumed foods, yet how it’s eaten varies considerably from one country to another.
Approach
Rather than looking at consumption alone, the visualization combines four complementary datasets: per-capita consumption, preferred pasta shapes, favorite sauces, and international trade flows.
Together, these layers reveal how local food cultures intersect with global production and trade networks.
Sources: Statista, Trade Map, OEC, and a range of country-specific culinary sources.
food poster
A series of illustrated reference posters exploring food through geography and classification. Covering pasta shapes across Italy, regional cheeses of France, and classic cocktails, each subject is presented in two complementary ways: a map locating every variety by its place of origin, and a taxonomy organizing each item by shared characteristics.
Sitting at the intersection of information design and editorial illustration, the project combines hand-drawn visuals with structured data to create reference posters that are both informative and approachable.
Les Nocturnes de l’histoire
Visual identity and poster series for Les Nocturnes de l’Histoire, an event programme by the Sorbonne University Library. The challenge was to create a visual system that could evolve across future editions while maintaining a consistent identity, using photography as the central element of each poster.
For the inaugural theme, confinement, I used blur and motion on both image and type to evoke enclosed space. Editorial structure meets a contemporary typographic language, academic context, distinctive expression.
Typeface: Chakra Petch by Cadson Demak.
skipit
UX/UI design for Skipit, a platform encouraging travelers to explore cities using local, sustainable transportation. Working across UX and graphic design, I contributed to research, information architecture, interaction design, branding, and interface design.
Approach
The project began with user research, workshops, and feature prioritization before evolving into a complete visual identity and mobile interface. As the concept matured, the visual direction shifted from a tourism-focused service to a community-driven platform centred on exploration and shared experiences.
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I'm Elise, a designer based in Copenhagen, working at the intersection of UX/UI and graphic design. My practice is built on visual storytelling and interaction design, transforming data and narratives into experiences based on research, visual encoding, and user-centered design. Curious by nature and eager to learn, I approach each project as an opportunity to find the angle that makes complex information stick.
Romie, Claude Type , designed by Margôt Lévêque.
Approach
Good design starts with curiosity, not certainty. Before looking for solutions, I learn the people, context, language, and systems behind a problem. Staying useful means treating research as part of the process, whether I’m entering a new domain, testing a new tool, or still shaping the question.
I define what needs to be understood before choosing a format. A map, interface, chart, or publication should follow the question, not lead it. The aim is to leave enough space for the research to challenge the first idea and reveal a more appropriate direction.
I look for the relationships that make complexity legible: what changes, connects, compares, or stays uncertain. Rather than removing information too early, I use hierarchy, sequence, context, and interaction to reduce cognitive effort without reducing the meaning the subject requires.
The first coherent solution is rarely the final one. I compare structures, visual languages, and interactions, then use prototypes and feedback to find where context is lost or the system breaks. Once the direction works, I refine the details that make it feel clear, credible, and considered.