Document Intake & Graph Visualization
Designed and built a document intake, semantic search, and graph visualization system using the OpenAlex API.
UX Designer + Front-End Developer on a team of 3
Document intake
the problem
The backend could ingest thousands of academic documents and extract relational data — but there was no usable interface. Researchers had no way to search, filter, or visualize the knowledge graph without going directly to the database.
process
I designed the UX with a focus on information hierarchy and progressive disclosure, then built the frontend in React and Next.js — connecting to GraphQL APIs and the OpenAlex academic data network.
solution
A multi-mode semantic search interface supporting Author, Institution, and Work queries with advanced filters, paginated results, rich detail views, and a graph visualization layer.
key features
- ✦OpenAlex API — author, institution, and work search
- ✦Search with continent and advanced filters
- ✦Paginated results with relevance scoring
- ✦Detail views for authors (H-Index, citations) and institutions
- ✦Graph visualization of document relationships
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