LIVE WELL COLLABORATIVE
Position
Communication Design
Co-op
Time
Fall 2025 and
Summer 2026
Place
Cincinnati, Ohio
The Live Well Collaborative is an academic-industry organization that helps companies develop products and services that promote living well across the lifespan. The work at Live Well is highly collaborative and multidisciplinary, bringing together diverse partners to create solutions that address the complex needs of a wide range of users. During my time at the Live Well Collaborative, I have worked as a Communication Designer and researcher on projects with several branches of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, as well as
Procter & Gamble.
SMART@Home
SMART@Home is a platform that was created to provide clinicians with a HIPAA-compliant way to create and publish patient-facing trackers, which are used for Remote Patient Monitoring. SMART@Home aggregates the trackers into a single app, new trackers can be created and sent out in minutes, and data is updated immediately upon patient input.
CCHMC Innovation Ventures, the team who developed SMART@Home, came to us with a unique challenge. The app was already collecting patient data through several trackers, however this data was being displayed in a very raw, unreadable format that was impractical for clinical use.
The data was being displayed in an endless horizontal scroll, with more topics being revealed upon scrolling to the right. And as you scroll down the rows, the tracker questions disappear so you can no longer see what the answers pertain to.
In a quest to build an interface that was helpful and convenient to doctors' workflows, my team and I began by interviewing ten clinicians, all with different backgrounds, to determine the most pertinent tracker information for them to see first and how they wanted to see it.
A glimpse into the chaos that was our Miro Board.
After collecting data from the initial interviews, and conducting our own secondary research, we began iteratively designing screen interfaces.
Final Screens
Cancer and Blood Disease Institute (CBDI) at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
The Live Well team worked with CBDI to develop patient personas for Cancer Survivorship. These highly researched personas were created as an accessible resource to provide faculty and staff with a foundational understanding of human-centered design. We also collaborated with CBDI on the development of a wellness booklet for an initiative called CRP-Well (Cardio Respiratory Program for Wellness), with the goal of encouraging and empowering Cancer Survivorship patients to prioritize their wellness.
These are just a few of the personas the team developed. Using firsthand data, gathered from patients and caregivers, these personas were created to be realistic and plausible.
These are a few of the pages I designed for the CRP-Well booklet, to encourage patients and help them track their wellness.
My team and I at the Hyundai Hope on Wheels event at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
Procter & Gamble
The purpose of the project I participated in with Procter & Gamble was to better understand what drives the purchasing behaviors of aging consumers when it comes to fabric and home care products, particularly through digital channels. My team and I conducted numerous in-home and virtual interviews with older adults and caregivers, along with extensive secondary research, before developing several consumer profiles and a comprehensive presentation highlighting our key findings. I can not include all of the work I did for this project, but feel free to contact me to learn more!
