Designing a Digestible Library for Busy Healthcare Professionals

My Role: Lead UX Architect
Company: Omnicom Production (previously FCBHealth NY)
Timeline: 7 months
Programs Used: Figma, Mural, Adobe Workfront, Internal AI
Methods: Affinity Mapping, UX Audit, Content Strategy
Deliverables: Sitemap, Wireframes, Functional Specs, Strategy Slides

Where the Experience was Breaking Down

The original website contained a robust collection of 85+ resources with deep medical content. However, the structure made it difficult for users to locate relevant information quickly.

  • Information hierarchy reflected internal organization rather than user intent

  • Important resources were difficult to discover

  • Engagement metrics suggested shallow exploration

  • Healthcare providers are time-constrained and cognitively overloaded

The issue wasn’t lack of content — it was lack of clarity.

Understanding the Landscape

Before making structural and feature updates, we needed to dig deeper into the context we’re working in, the user behavior and client goals.

Approach

  • Reviewed previous user testing and research

  • Reviewed analytics to understand engagement patterns

  • Evaluated existing IA and content structure

This phase allowed us to ground the work in evidence rather than assumptions.

Key Insights

  • Users need recognizable terminology in the navigation

  • Users need direct access to information and resources

  • Resources were underutilized due to discoverability issues

Designing Around User Intent

Before

After

We restructured the architecture around how healthcare providers actually seek information and the priorities for our clients. Some of those strategic shifts included:

  • Reorganized content around user intent

  • Simplified navigation labels to reduce interpretation effort

  • Elevated high-value educational resources, placing content on internal pages instead of burying it

  • Introduced a library-centric structure, consistently driving users deeper into the collection of resources that are efficently navigated through filtering & sorting

Where Strategy Became Structure

Clarifying the Entry Point

The homepage needed to orient users quickly and support scanning behavior.

  • Simplified navigation to prioritize primary tasks

  • Align CTAs with primary strategic goals

  • Reduced competing content blocks

  • Strengthened visual hierarchy to clarify pathways

The result: a clearer starting point that respected clinicians’ limited time.

Centralizing Knowledge for Discoverability

Previously underutilized resources were reorganized into a centralized, structured library.

  • Created a filterable resource hub

  • Improved tagging and categorization

  • Supported both quick reference and deeper exploration

The result: high-value educational materials were significantly easier to access.

From Structure to Results

Following launch, the site showed measurable improvements in engagement.

  • Session duration increased more than 5× (36s → 2m 30s)

  • Users explored previously underutilized resources

  • The new IA supported deeper content interaction

Structural clarity directly influenced engagement quality.

Want to dig deeper? A full presentation of this case study — including stakeholder facilitation and tradeoff decisions — is available upon request.

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