Hi, I’m Stephanie. I’m a user experience designer & researcher.
I’m passionate about improving quality of life through clean, easy-to-use design. I believe we should spend less time on our devices, and more time outside (or doing whatever brings you joy). I lived in Colorado for eight years, and it showed me how restorative unplugged outdoor time can be. (The picture is one I took on a hike in Vail, Colorado.)
Enhancing Patient Safety Through Better UX: Redesigning the Vitals View for Operative Nurses
PROBLEM: Nurses in outpatient surgery centers need a reliable, simple vitals recording system to make clinical decisions without compromising patient care.
CHALLENGE: Design a solution that improves how clinicians access and interpret vitals data. The information they needed was in multiple places, making it hard to enter it all and make decisions with.
My impact: I reduced risk of documentation and interpretation errors by removing cross-workflow navigation and standardizing vitals formatting across stages.
Interoperability: Increasing Transparency
PROBLEM: The existing document labeling system made it difficult for healthcare providers to determine a document's contents without opening it—and opening it meant permanently adding it to the patient record.
CHALLENGE: Give clinicians visibility and control without disrupting established clinical workflows or requiring a complete system overhaul.
Looking For More Definition: What’s Considered To Be An “Event” To A Clinician?
PROBLEM: Clinicians think in terms of care events, but medical records are organized by documents—creating friction when context matters most. Users are forced to piece together context at critical moments of care.
CHALLENGE: Understand the mental model and uncover what clinicians are really looking for when they need information.