Quest Health
Composing the brand story for the homepage
To do this, I helped to curate and facilitate a design workshop with senior stakeholders and executive-level leadership to define page level information architecture of the homepage.
I started by looking at different homepages from companies that also sell health related tests online to get data on:
- type of content modules used
- the order of these modules
- number of modules each site had
I arranged the sites on a scale from product/shopping focused to story/brand focused to see where the new site would sit. To further analyze these sites, we looked at each module summarizing what is being communicated and rank ones that could work well for Quest’s homepage.
After sharing our insights gathered from competitors, the team conducted a dot voting exercise to determine what the content types the homepage would feature.
Each stakeholder had 3-4 dots that they would place on different cards of what they wanted to see on the homepage.
With the 4 content types chosen from the workshop
- Value of Testing
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DTC Consumer Testing
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Quest Story
- Browse Categories
we began to explore the order and amount of space each section should have.
Balances the need to easily find and shop for tests while highlighting the Quest Health brand as a trusted leader in direct-to-consumer testing space.
A focus on trust and simplicity
Additionally, we worked closely with the visual and developing teams to apply the new brand style and ensure that each page translated accurately to the live site.
Since launching the redesigned site and online portal in 2022, Quest has helped enabled 70 million users to conveniently purchase tests which were previously unavailable without a doctor's authorization which has generated an estimated revenue of $3.15 billion that year.
To keep such a massive team of designers, writers, product managers, and engineers from across the world on track to meet deadlines. Management implemented a sprint style strategy having the UX designers start work a bit ahead of the UI designers who would be ahead of developers, but always having constant communication between the teams. This management strategy helped all the internal teams stay informed on what was coming down the pipeline and how progress is developing.
I gained a deeper understanding of the unique challenges and opporutnties associated with designing for the healthcare industry, including considerations related to privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.
Conducting the homepage workshop and sharing design progress weekly with the client refined my presentation skills and confidence as I better understood stakeholder priorities and concerns. Over the weeks, I began to think ahead and be prepared for potential questions, feedback, and development concerns which helped gain buy-in on difficult design decisions.