Over the last years, the need for better user interfaces in scientific computing has become apparent by the enormous growth in popularity of computational notebooks. However, the user experience provided by these notebooks is very limited compared to the live programming environments of Smalltalk, and first studies on how they are actually used in research studies point out various weaknesses. We present the first steps we have taken towards building a scientific workbench in Pharo, based on the Glamorous Toolkit, and outline future developments towards that goal.