
MyChart by Epic: Patient Health Portal
Empowering over 150 million patients to get and stay healthy
Role: Senior User Experience Designer & Team Lead
Timeline: Nov 2020 - Current
(started at Epic in 2017 on Inpatient and specialty applications, became a team lead in 2019)
Due to an NDA, I cannot post detailed descriptions of my work and am focusing more on my role & responsibilities on MyChart.
💡A designer of thoughtful solutions to complex problems
Design through the entire product lifecycle to create accessible, patient-centered experiences on MyChart, Epic’s patient portal
Maintain, evolve, and expand MyChart’s design system
Manage updates to MyChart’s UX Guide, which provides design system documentation for designers, developers, and quality assurance
Iterate based on feedback from user research, stakeholder feedback, technical considerations, and quality assurance
🙋🏻♀️ A manager of people and processes
Manage a team of user experience designers on the Patient Experience division, by coaching, providing feedback, facilitating growth, and guiding project prioritization for team members
Develop and improve company-wide UX processes, which empower developers and designers to work together and democratize design tools
Manage, document, and improve internal & external UX designer intern program, which grows up-and-coming design talent at Epic
Conduct interviews and provide feedback for hiring for the user experience designer role, which shapes the DNA of our growing design team
Coordinated Epic’s World Usability Day (twice!), a half-day series of talks with an audience of 3500+ employees, which educated & inspired developers, quality assurance, and writers to incorporate UX in their work
🖼 A storyteller & communication designer
Synthesize content, refine messages, and craft executive-level multimedia presentations for audiences of tens of thousands
Create graphics and motion design to communicate complex ideas in a visually appealing and joyful way
Image courtesy of Epic.com (that’s me at the bottom!)
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