Foundation Medicine

Intranet Re-Architecting & Redesign

Client: Foundation Medicine and Roche

SERVICES:
Product & UI Design
User Research
Service Design

STRENGTHS:
Product & UI Design
User Research
Service Design

HEALTHCARE

Role: Lead UX & Product Designer

Who & What

Foundation Medicine (FMI) is a cancer pharmaceutical research company creating cancer therapies and patient care programs which alleviate the journey of the cancer diagnosis.

With 3,000 employees spread across 8 labs and offices in the US and Germany, their intranet is key to keeping everyone abreast of information and connected.

Inquiries

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Recommendations for plug ins for an upgraded client experience

Content audit of most used and visited pages to focus our iteration process

Application and plug in audit

The Challenge and Brief

While working as a lead service and experience designer for Foundation Medicine, I was tasked with moving the project from the discovery phase into the design phase via wireframing, user testing and UI design.

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Process & Strategy

Remote coordinating with teams in Boston, MA and Austin, TX

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Solution

Prioritized content and surfaced new opportunities for employees to actively use a new intranet interface.

Methodologies employed:

User interviews; journey mapping & service mapping; user scenarios; site mapping; content auditing and information architecture redesign; wireframing; user testing; 2-week agile design & engineering sprints.

The Intranet Friction Points & Chokeholds

Pinpointing the core needs and uses of the employee intranet to understand where solutions are possible.

Mapping an Intranet User Journey and Potential Improvements

User journey map for a user persona that's a newly hired team member who's a content consumer but also needs to manage a team who will need to publish articles on an intranet.

Annotated Wireframe Denoting Modules

User journey map for a user persona that's a newly hired team member who's a content consumer but also needs to manage a team who will need to publish articles on an intranet.

Outcomes & Impact

Improved and quicker adoption of the new intranet design in user testing with key user groups

A clearer employee onboarding path and deeper use of the intranet to locate core company materials

Consolidated content modules and revamped navigation architecture that lowered the development resources needed to render the intranet

Mindmapping the Intranet

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