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      <image:caption>With my design partners, I created a research plan aimed at establishing foundational, shared knowledge from which we could begin building the product. The plan included questions to help us understand goals, pain points, and processes. Interview guides typically start broad with open ended questions, then slower taper in toward specific questions. We do this in order to ensure we don’t bias interviewees with specific topics before they have a chance to say more broadly whats important to them.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>From left to right: Our designs evolved to optimize for button placement over time. We moved the core decision buttons closer to the thumbs, and moved from a dropdown to a single tap ‘Advance’ button (while keeping the ability to edit afterwards) to help it feel faster.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Left: Tiles were a little more visually appealing and provided larger touch points, but weren’t as scalable and we knew we’d want to introduce new types of content over time. Middle: Recruiters like high information density, so we experimented with a model bringing more content and information up to this top level. When tested, however, it was too much. Recruiters cited the need for a quick overview of task type and choosing where to dive in before seeing the details. Right: This is what we launched our initial trusted tester with. I’ll discuss the feedback we received on it below, but overall it provided a solid, scalable framework allowing recruiters a clear overview of their tasks.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Aggregated analysis of tasks in the category “I want to do this on mobile.” on a grid of urgency and frequency to help us prioritize.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The problematic implementation of our navigation system didn’t allow users to return to the context where they’d started a task.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An example slide from our story. This illustration was done by a very talented illustrator on our team who I partnered with on this project, not me!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Example of a monthly member feedback review with conducted with our team. Red stickies are negative comments, green are positive.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>How I think about my responsibilities as a design manager. Please feel free to read my blog post for more detailed thoughts on the framework.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Vision sketch for the future of care planning involving multi-person care teams. Note this illustration was done by another member of my design team.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Preparing Omada’s Care Platform for the future</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Design leadership (Garner) - Improving member satisfaction with a cross functional UX strategy</image:title>
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      <image:title>Design leadership (Garner) - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A sample of our NPS responses, manually tagged with a taxonomy I created to get a more nuanced, quantitative understanding of opportunity sizes and impact.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Our NPS data from our initial surveys. NPS was 1 (On a scale of -100 to 100). This is generally seen as a poor score, and is below industry average even for insurance companies.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The data showed three clear themes: Provider access / coverage, claims, and usability.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Design leadership (Garner) - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Design leadership (Garner) - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The systematic monthly tagging of NPS responses allowed us to specifically track improvements within the particular pillars of our strategy. As you can see, all 3 pillars showed meaningful improvement throughout 2025 so far, with provider coverage / access still being the leading driver of dissatisfaction.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A summary of client feedback created by our AM team. The results reaffirmed our assessment from our research with members.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>NPS held steady around 0 through 2024, but began to rise in 2025 as new members joined during Open Enrollment and we began to see a return on our investment.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Our home screen looked amateur, wasted space, and created navigation problems.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Mobile app design (Garner) - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The high level steps in the journey we designed around. The journey gave us shared anchor points we knew we needed to consider and helped us speak the same language. Each of these steps were further broken down into more discrete segments that we used as the foundation for our ideation.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Claims and Usability detractors have declined significantly over the course of this year. We believe this is largely a lagging indicator from the changes we made in Q1.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An example slide of a pared down concept that honed in on the specific components we aimed to build this year.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Driving engagement and member satisfaction with a mobile app redesign</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An example of some of the low fidelity mockups we generated in our original workshops to quickly get out key ideas. These mockups show a new bottom navigation, improved steerage with recommendations for not approved providers, and an early version of what ended up being the Care Team.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Some of the different options we considered as we thought through the architecture of the Care Team.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Some images of our final version of the redesign. Shown are the new home screen, global navigation, Care Team, benefit tracker, and improved claims list.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Our final design for the Care Team list. We decided its level of importance warranted making it a new global navigation element.</image:caption>
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