"Our design is now outdated. Could you come up with new design that’s more catchy, user-friendly, and compatible?”"

Janssen CarePath


About the Client

Janssen CarePath, part of Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals, provides patient support services (Benefit Investigation, Insurance Coverage review, Financial Assistance programs, Treatment and Care coordination resources, etc.). The portal plays a critical role in connecting user to healthcare resources, making usability, accuracy, and compliance essential to the overall experience.


Mobile Optimization

The existing portal architecture had not been designed with responsiveness in mind, resulting in layouts that were dense, text-heavy, and difficult to adapt to smaller screens.

  • Desktop-only layouts with no mobile or tablet considerations

  • Large volumes of mandatory FDA-regulated content

  • Complex workflows requiring high accuracy with no organized documentation

  • Limited screen space for presenting dense healthcare information

  • The need to preserve all existing functionality during optimization

The Challenge

As UX Designer, I was responsible for creating mobile and tablet (portrait and landscape) wireframes for over 130 desktop pages, delivered across 4 structure phases.

  • Analyze the existing desktop layouts to identify content patterns and critical interactions

  • Expand design system to include typography and spacing for mobile and tablet

  • Collaborate with 1 off-shore designer, developers and accessibility teams to ensure responsive feasibility within the existing system

  • Support testing, deployment, and post-launch change requests

My Role


Design Approach

Rather than simply resizing screens, I focused on rethinking content hierarchy and interaction patterns for smaller devices.

  • Prioritizing critical user actions and information

  • Breaking dense content into digestible sections

  • Maintaining consistency across breakpoints

This ensured the experience remained usable and intuitive across mobile, tablet, and desktop.

Translating Dense Desktop Experiences into Responsive Flows

To manage over 130+ screens across multiple device types, collaborated with Off-shore designer (Amazing designer, Kiran), we created a structured and scalable workspace.

  • Organized screens by core functionality

  • Further categorized by product type

  • Divided each group by device format

This structure improved team efficiency, design consistency, and ease of collaboration and review.

Building a Scalable Design Structure

Screenshot of new Sketch file created for mobile optimization project using new organization structure

The mobile optimization was successfully delivered by providing:

  • A fully responsive healthcare portal across mobile and tablet devices

  • Improved clarity and usability

  • Consistent design patterns across 130+ screens

The final product provided a more accessible, patient-friendly experience while preserving the integrity of complex healthcare processes.

Outcome

Post-design, I supported QA

  • Create testing scenarios for responsive flows

  • Perform end-to-end testing

  • Track and resolve defects

After launch, I continued supporting change requests (each requiring regulatory review), ensuring ongoing design accuracy and compliance.

End-to-End Collaboration & Testing

The Janssen CarePath patient portal was originally designed only for desktop use, with no consideration for mobile or tablet experiences.

As patients accessed the portal on smaller devices, it became clear that the existing desktop layouts were not meeting user needs. Fixed, text-heavy screens made navigation difficult and limited accessibility outside of desktop environments.

This project focused on optimizing the existing portal into a fully responsive experience across mobile and tablet, restructuring content hierarchy and layouts while preserving all core functionality, interactions and regulatory requirements

Project Overview

After addressing mobile usability, Janssen CarePath took the next step by partnering with IBM to redesign and unify the portal platform.


eVolve - Portal Redesign

Following the mobile optimization effort, Janssen CarePath partnered with IBM to lead a full redesign and modernization of the patient portal.

Over several years, the platform had expanded to support new products and services without a unified UX structure. As a result, experiences became visually inconsistent, difficult to scale, and increasingly complex to maintain.

This project focused on redesigning the portal experience while establishing a scalable design system—creating a cohesive, compliant, and user-centered platform that could support multiple brands, workflows, and future growth.

Project Overview

As new programs and brand portals were added over time, the platform evolved without consistent design guidelines or structure.

  • Fragmented UI patterns across multiple brand portals

  • Lack of standardized layouts, components, and interaction models

  • Outdated visual styles and inconsistent hierarchy

  • Difficulty scaling designs across new products and workflows

  • Ensuring compliance across all redesigned experiences

The goal was to transform a collection of disconnected experiences into a cohesive, scalable system while preserving complex healthcare functionality.

The Challenge

I worked as part of a small core design team responsible for leading the portal redesign and building the new design system.

  • Audit existing portals to identify inconsistencies and opportunities for standardization

  • Translate third-party vendor UI concepts into scalable, system-driven UX solutions

  • Design end-to-end user flows across redesigned portal experiences

  • Build and organizing reusable components and patterns in Figma

  • Establish clear file structure and design processes to support collaboration and scalability

  • Partner closely with product, engineering, accessibility, and compliance teams

My Role


We began by reviewing screens across all brand portals to understand:

  • Where patterns diverged

  • Which components were duplicated or inconsistent

  • How workflows varied across similar use cases

This audit informed a unified UX direction and highlighted opportunities to simplify and standardize experiences.

Design Approach

Audit a Fragmented Platform

A core focus of the redesign was creating a design system that could support multiple brands and workflows within a regulated environment.

I contributed to:

  • Defining reusable UI components and interaction patterns

  • Structuring component libraries for easy scalability

  • Ensuring designs aligned with accessibility and compliance requirements

  • Documenting patterns for long-term maintenance

This system became the foundation for all redesigned CarePath portals.

Building a Scalable Design Structure

Screenshot of new Style Guide (aka. Design System) we created

Designing Within Regulatory Constraints - CAC step

Throughout the redesign, every UX decision was evaluated against regulatory and accessibility standards. I worked closely with cross-functional partners to:

  • Preserve mandatory content and workflows

  • Ensure clarity for dense healthcare information

  • Validate designs through compliance review cycles

This ensured the redesigned portal was both usable and fully compliant.

With over 18+ brand portals supported by the platform, the redesign needed to balance consistency with flexibility.

  • Establish a common layout and hierarchy framework

  • Allow brand-specific customization within standardized components

  • Create consistent navigation and workflow structures

This approach delivered a cohesive experience while supporting diverse product needs.

Unifying Experience Across Brands

Screenshot of newly designed portal

The portal redesign successfully delivered:

  • A modernized, user-friendly, and compliant patient portal experience

  • Unified UX across 18+ brand portals

  • A scalable design system supporting future product expansion

  • Improved consistency and clarity across complex healthcare workflows

  • Stronger cross-team collaboration through shared design standards

The new UX foundation enabled Janssen CarePath to continue evolving the platform with greater efficiency and consistency.

Outcome

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