Durable systems · Content architecture
Research2Reality
A decade is a serious usability test.
- Role
- Design & build
- Type
- WordPress platform
- Timeline
- 2015 – present
- Live at
- research2reality.com
WHO WE AREHEALTH & MEDICINESPACE & QUANTUM
LATEST RESEARCH
Making complex science worth exploring.
The friction
Two problems at once: making complex Canadian science genuinely accessible to the public, and building a home for it that survives — outlasting web-trend churn, theme fashions, and platform decay over more than a decade.
Where the craft is
This one isn’t about AI — and that’s the point. The craft is durable content architecture and information design: a clear topical taxonomy plus category-driven layouts on a boring, maintainable WordPress core, so editors keep publishing without a rebuild. Longevity as a deliberate design choice.
Who it helps — Canadian researchers (visibility for publicly funded work), science communicators (a durable publishing home), and the general public (jargon-free explanations). Backed by U of T, Waterloo, UBC, and CIFAR.
What I built
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A category-centric platform
Each topic renders its own layout from per-category settings, absorbing new subjects without structural change.
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A child-theme discipline
Customizations isolated so the core can keep updating for a decade.
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A publishing model that lasted
Standard, portable content with no exotic dependencies to rot.
Proof