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Sylvester · University of Miami
My Wellness
Between visits
Research happens between visits, too. In a daily check-in. In a conversation with a coach. In the decisions a research team makes next. I designed the shared context that brings those moments together.
My role
Sole product designer for nine months, working with Dr. Tracy Crane and Grey Freylersythe at Sylvester: the participant app, the coaching workspace and the research tools.
Impact
Hours of LIvES coaching conversations, analyzed by Sylvester’s researchers with NLP and machine learning.
Of TEAL’s first 60 participants chose to take part in Spanish. TEAL uses My Wellness Research for weekly remote coaching.
Research network
Home at Sylvester. Studies with Yale Medicine and Dana-Farber. Research funded by the NIH and PCORI.
The brief
Translating cancer research from paper forms to a living data platform.
Three audiences, one platform
A consumer app for patients, a clinical tool for coaches, a research engine for scientists.
- Participants
A consumer app
Daily check-ins, wearable sync and trends. Closer to Noom than a clinical tool, and forgiving for hands numbed by chemotherapy.
- Health coaches
A clinical tool
Video calls, messaging and scheduling, with the participant’s profile and goals beside the conversation.
- Researchers
A research engine
Study arms, a modular assessment library, and the targets, triggers and rules that act on what comes in.
Follow-up rules
Make the rule readable before it runs.
A missing answer triggers two distinct actions: notify the research team through in-app mail, and send a follow-up to the participant app. Condition, destination and recipient stay visible, so a researcher can inspect the rule and change it.
The research workspace, rebuilt in code from my original designs. The tour plays on its own; open it to try it yourself.
Study setup and the automation library, from the 2023 product walkthrough. The same follow-up rule, composed for a phone.
The coaching experience
Video calls that capture data while delivering empathy.
The call sits beside the participant’s goals, profile and internal notes. A coach can record a touchpoint during the conversation and keep the follow-up connected to the participant’s history.
A Record Touchpoint toggle, an internal notes field and a goals sidebar, so coaches can focus on the person while the system handles data collection.
The product decisions
Shared context, distinct responsibilities.
- 01
A reusable research model
Separate an assessment from the studies that use it. Keep questions, subsets and study associations visible while configuring the module.
- 02
Explicit coordination
Name the trigger, destination and recipient for each action. Staff notification and participant follow-up have separate, inspectable settings.
- 03
Continuity for the team
Carry the participant’s history and goals into messaging and calls, then give the team a place to record the next touchpoint.
Credits
- Role
- Sole product designer: research, information architecture, prototyping, visual design, research-ops design
- Worked with
- Dr. Tracy Crane’s lab and Grey Freylersythe at Sylvester, with the research and engineering teams
- Platform
- Participant mobile app, coaching workspace, research operations
- Research network
- Sylvester (platform home); Yale Medicine and Dana-Farber (collaborators); NIH/NCI and PCORI (research funding)
- Sources
- University of Miami News (2023, 2024), JNCI (2025), AACR abstract IA004 (2025)
- Tools
- Figma, Sketch, InVision, Miro
Interfaces on this page are rebuilt in code from my original designs; names and values in them are sample prototype content. The figures describe Sylvester’s research programs, not outcomes of the interface alone.