Crafting the future of precision medicine

Intending to revolutionize precision medicine and cancer treatment, Tempus creates tools and infrastructure to assist doctors and healthcare providers in making informed, real-time, data-driven decisions. Shortly after launch, Tempus needed its first designer to help bridge the gap between the MVP platform and the next iteration of the multi-faceted offering.

From interface refinement to exploring the future of the design system — there were plenty of opportunities out of the gate. Tempus needed a designer with a broad skill set, and many teams were excited by the possibility of refinements to their corner of the Tempus world.

As the first designer at Tempus, I helped establish the design practice and evolved the interface while also supporting various proof of concepts and interactive prototypes.

Tempus 2.0

On day one, the interface was pretty much out-of-the-box Material design, which the dev team quickly stood up to hit the MVP deadline. One of my first tasks was to begin imagining what the next iteration of the interface could be.

It was also an excellent opportunity to begin establishing the framework for a design system — identifying the components, modules, and design language across the entire Tempus ecosystem. Composed of everything from patient genomic profiling reports to immunotherapy research, the scope was expansive and continually growing as new service lines were added regularly.

Ultimately this project took a back seat to more urgent design needs and supporting the existing interface. Still, throughout my time at Tempus, I continued to iterate and update the elements within the system, leveraging insights from other design work, conversations with key stakeholders, and the addition of new service lines.

Pathology Proof of Concept

I designed the pathology proof of concept in conjunction with two major research universities to accurately convey the possibility of a next-generation pathology workflow based on the pain points of current workflows. Many of the offerings available to pathologists were designed poorly and suffered from poor information hierarchy and slow performance.

Working with the Director of Pathology over roughly two weeks, product owners, and the CEO, I iterated toward the final clickable prototype, which we shared with the research institutions as part of the sales meetings.

The POC (proof of concept) needed to fit within the existing design ecosystem and be white-labeled for institution-specific branding. I leveraged the current Material design language while incorporating the recent developments within the 2.0 style guide and design language.

Immunotherapy

The existing immunotherapy section was initially pretty stark compared to some of the other areas within the application. When I began working with the immunotherapy team, our primary focus was streamlining and improving the data visualizations within the report.

The immunotherapy update was another excellent opportunity to leverage some of the early work within the new design system. Small things like new tables, improved navigation, and refined data visualizations on their own don't seem like much. When combined, though, the improvement to the immunotherapy section was a much more straightforward presentation of critical data and an improved interaction (expand/collapse table rows) for viewing key details.