Making clinical trials feel simple
Almost seven years at Medrio — growing from Jr UX/UI to Senior, building the design system, and championing design thinking across the company.
Role
Jr → Sr Product Designer
Team
Sole designer → growing design team, with PMs and product analysts
Duration
~7 years
Year
2017 — 24
Context
Medrio builds clinical trial technology — eClinical software used by life-sciences teams to capture and manage trial data. It's one of TIME's World's Top HealthTech Companies 2025. Clinical trial tech shouldn't be challenging to use; my job was to make some of the most complicated data capture in software look and feel simple.
The problem
In a fast-growing org, design was on the back foot — working ticket-to-ticket without a shared system, shared language, or shared method. Patterns drifted across products, and design thinking wasn't yet part of how the company shipped.
Approach
- 01
Built and maintained a comprehensive library of reusable components — the foundation of Medrio's design system — to keep the product suite consistent and the team fast.
- 02
Defined and documented standardized design patterns, improving collaboration between designers, developers, and product teams.
- 03
Championed design thinking across the company — facilitated workshops and design reviews to embed user-centered practices in product development.
- 04
Grew with the design team across nearly seven years: supported onboarding and mentored new designers as the team scaled.
- 05
Partnered with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to align design decisions with business goals and user needs.
Outcome
Reflection
Case studies and detailed projects are best shared in 1:1 interviews due to privacy policy. The lasting work at Medrio wasn't a single screen — it was a design culture: shared patterns, shared vocabulary, and the expectation that design thinking shows up early.