I am a healthcare UX Designer, Researcher, Strategist, and creative problem-solver.

  • Pictal Health – a Health History Visualization Product

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  • Children's mental health assessment tool: product + UX

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  • Medical center website and information architecture redesign

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I’m a research-oriented designer who loves to simplify the complex, visualize data, and lead projects.

Across healthcare settings I’ve led design on mobile and web products for patients and clinicians; I’ve also designed better service experiences for patients and families who are ‘using’ the healthcare system. Here’s a little about how I work.

I use design research to learn about people, clarify problems, and built a strategy: what we should do, and why.

My purpose in life is to create order out of chaos. I crave complexity, and I love to tame it.

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I visualize data, ecosystems, and research findings to help us build a common understanding.

I make meetings productive and fun by planning ahead and using creative activities to invite participation. I spend lots of time facilitating and listening.

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People tell me I’m the glue that keeps a project together. Collaboration and communication come naturally to me.

You might say I’m a designer with a PM bent; I help teams carry projects through the finish line.

More about me

As a patient and patient advocate, I have a deep understanding of the problems patients face, and through my personal experiences and past research & design projects, I have developed a strong sense of providers’ pain points.

I’ve dabbled in various personal communication tools to help illustrate my symptoms for my healthcare providers, and I am passionately interested in finding other ways of improving patient-provider communication.

Heck, I started a company, Pictal Health, to address this problem.

I created a ‘designer’s oath’ as part of a collaborative ‘code of ethics’ written by a number of healthcare designers

I’m an organizer and connector. I co-organized a healthcare innovation meet-up group in Burlington, VT that grew to over 700 people; and I’m currently organizing local meetups and events for designers.

When I’m not working you can find me hiking, downhill & nordic skiing, admiring my rock collection, working in my garden, attending farmer’s markets, and watching true crime.