Clinetic Design Work
Overview
Clinetic is a small startup that helps clinical research teams find matching patients through health data, then manage screening, contacting and consenting on a patient board. It also helps provide pharmaceutical companies more visibility into study progress they normally can’t see because of HIPAA, and lets study coordinators build their own data visualizations.
My Role
- Sole Senior UX Designer supporting 8 developers: wireframes, final mockups and feature documentation.
- Worked with the Product Manager to turn business requirements into UI.
- Maintained the Figma pattern library.
Cohort Builder Redesign Dec 2022 – Feb 2023
A clinical study can have 30 or more inclusion and exclusion criteria pulled from a patient’s health data (ex. a diagnosis of atrial fibrillation in the last 6 months, or 3 ER visits in the last year). We needed a builder that could handle that complexity and still be readable.
The Previous Builder
The first version was built so our team could create cohorts behind the scenes. By the end of the redesign it needed to work for our users, not just our in-house people.
Early Designs
With a list of criteria for some upcoming studies, I decided to jump right in. I started with paper wireframes to wrap my head around the problem, then tried a few different ways to show the complex criteria.
Feedback & Iteration
I tested a rough prototype with my Product Manager, the engineering teams, and a few coworkers who’d come from clinical research, which made them perfect early testers.
What we learned:
- The designs were still too busy and hard to scan.
- Grouping criteria under higher-level titles, the way studies lay them out, was too complex for users.
Final Iterations
After many iterations I finished final mockups and step-by-step prototypes for the developers. A user builds a criterion like ‘Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in the last year’ by searching and selecting, and once it’s added it reads as a sentence. That makes 30–40 criteria much easier to scan.
Post-Development
It shipped in early March 2023. Our Product Manager was the first user, setting up a cardiology study for Renown Health, and it came together much more smoothly for her. Renown went on to build it into their studies, and within about a year it was part of around 10 of them along with adoption in other health systems.
Other Projects & Features
Patient Cards: Matching Health Data
- Worked with the data engineers as each new type of health data came in (medications, labs, visits, diagnoses).
- Designed how matching data shows on the Patient card, and how users choose what appears.
- A huge customer success: HIPAA makes outside vendors hard to work with, so data that’s easy to parse and trace back to a patient’s chart was a big addition to their pipeline.
