Client
Corewell Health (formerly Spectrum Health)
Year
2021
Role
Lead UX Designer
Duration
2+ Years

Enterprise Redesign & Design System Evolution

Led the enterprise‑scale redesign of corewellhealth.org, Michigan’s largest healthcare system, modernizing information architecture and navigation during the merger of Spectrum Health and Beaumont.

spectrumhealth.org homepage
spectrumhealth.org doctor search
mobile site architecture
helen devos children's hospital homepage
desktop site architecture
mobile site architecture

The Challenge

In the summer of 2021, I joined Spectrum Health as Lead UX Designer at a pivotal moment: the organization was preparing for a complete digital transformation. The enterprise web experience needed to be rebuilt from the ground up, leveraging a headless CMS (Contentstack) and establishing the organization's first comprehensive design system.

This wasn't just a routine redesign — it required coordinating across multiple departments, establishing new workflows, and creating a scalable framework that could evolve with the organization. The stakes were high, as this would eventually support the transition to Corewell Health, Michigan's largest healthcare system.

The Approach

I led the UX effort across marketing, development, and subject matter experts, serving as the bridge between technical implementation and user needs. My role involved guiding the creation of a scalable design framework that would unify brand identity while improving patient engagement across all digital touchpoints.

Working with a headless CMS architecture required reimagining how content and design systems work together — creating flexible, reusable components that maintain consistency while empowering content authors.

The design system became the foundation for all digital experiences, establishing patterns for navigation, information architecture, and interaction design. This framework needed to be robust enough to support both the immediate launch of spectrumhealth.org and flexible enough to accommodate the future transition to Corewell Health's combined brand.

The Results

The initiative culminated in the successful launch of the new spectrumhealth.org experience, establishing a modern, scalable digital foundation for the organization. The design system and component library became essential tools for the entire digital team, enabling consistent experiences across all properties.

2+ Years
Project Duration
Enterprise
Scale & Complexity
Michigan's Largest
Healthcare System

When Spectrum Health and Beaumont Health merged to form Corewell Health, the flexible architecture and design system we built proved invaluable. The framework evolved to support the new brand identity and expanded digital presence, demonstrating the lasting value of building systems that can adapt to organizational change.

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