The Polygon Health logo

Designing Polygon Health’s AI-powered marketplace

Allowing rare disease patients to match with clinical trials and access their health insights,
all in one place.
25%
increase in user downloads
and sign-ups
80%
of users submitted marketplace
requests after launch
A mockup of the designed Polygon Health mobile experience.

Project Info

Internship
8 weeks

My Role

Sole UX Designer and UX Researcher
working with CEO, engineer and PM
Polygon Health is an AI-powered tool that allows rare disease patients to access their health records and insights, all in one place.

Designing a marketplace that connects patients to health insights and clinical trials.

Goals
Competitive Analysis
  • Provide users an easy and valuable way to find insights on their critical conditions and match them with clinical trials
  • Make health data tools more approachable and trustworthy
  • Utlimately, grow product user base
A competitive analysis graph of Polygon Health, Ciitizen and Guava Health.
The final designed solutions, mocked-up.
The Final Solution

Navigating the constraints of a startup

Polygon Health is small, and operates within an emerging market that doesn’t have clear
bounds yet.

Some constraints approaching the project were:
  • User base of patients with rare conditions
  • Rough product state (MVP)
  • Tickets will be manually reviewed to start off
  • Data privacy and user trust
  • User accessibility (health and tech literacy)
  • No user research pipeline

Analyzing and building out the Marketplace feature

A diagram of how the marketplace feature works within the app.
A diagram describing the form submission feature; a user sends a form from Marketplace, and the Database sends back the request in your Inbox.

Designing and developing the form feature

After defining the key components of this experience, I explored multiple approaches to help users seamlessly get matched to a clinical trial.
Low-fi concepts for the Polygon Health solution.

Final solution to successfully match patients with trials and data

The Carousel Concept was our winning concept,
due to the contextual information and
smoother usability.
User flow diagram for the Carousel Concept.

Measuring success: 3 major changes

After launch, I took the initiative to design and conduct my own observation and A/B testing on our target user group to see if my solutions were effective.

Testing revealed several changes to make.
Diagram showing three changes made from the second prototype.

Feature is released to the public

A mockup diagram showing the published features.

How did users respond?

A graph depicting an 80% form submission rate, and a happy user depicted in a Zoom screenshot.

North Star Ideas

Exploring future directions for the product with a focus on enhanced form submissions and expanded use cases to improve precision, insights, and collaboration.
Diagram showing North Star Ideas for the project: AI-powered match making, Health Insights, and Patient Support Groups.

Moving Forward

I'm super grateful that I was able to work on a real life project to develop real products for people in need, people with critical conditions.

The hectic startup environment taught me how take ownership of my role, to take initiative. I designed and conducted my own user testing. I kept in dialogue with potential users. I made the case to push product agendas.

I learned so much.

Huge thanks to Weilin and the rest of the team at Polygon Health for the awesome experience and mentorship!