John Blanco-Slingerland — immersive experience design
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San Francisco/Bay area

John Blanco-Slingerland

Product, UX design, BRAND strategy

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Seventeen years of product and UX design — Counterpart Health, Amazon One Medical, Cisco AppDynamics, Capital One; seven of them leading design teams. I work where interface design meets complex workflows, and platforms where multiple teams have to ship something coherent. Strong engineering partnership, research-driven.

Inside (the) practice

I help companies deliver AI-enabled workflows designed for humans, when it really matters.

See the work
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01 — Background

A BRIEF HISTORY

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Seventeen years in product design.SEVEN OF THEM LEADING THE TEAM.

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  • 2025 Counterpart Health

    2025 — 2026

    Staff UX designer. Clinical software for AI-assisted care, built for clinicians at the point of care.

  • 2022 Amazon One Medical

    2022 — 2024

    Senior design manager. Led the provider and care-team redesign. Five designers on my team made senior.

  • 2017 Cisco AppDynamics

    2017 — 2022

    Senior designer, then design manager, then chief of staff for product design. Process and standards across global teams.

  • 2016 Capital One

    2016 — 2017

    Spend Analytics — a data visualization tool used by 155+ retailers. I built the HTML and CSS prototypes myself.

  • 2015 Womply

    2015 — 2016

    Nine shipped features, including a messenger for restaurant and retail staff, and a design system across iOS, Android, and desktop.

  • 2010 Mule Design · Digital Gear

    2010 — 2015

    Visual design, art direction, research, client presentations, and prototypes in hand-written HTML and CSS.

  • 2009 Banter Media

    2009 — 2012

    Sites for record labels, micro-sites for bands, flyers and album art. The music work is where I started.

Work

Featured works

Clinical AI · platform architecture · shipped features

01 — Flagship / platform

From admin checklist to point of care assistant

A clinical assistant used by primary care physicians had grown into four disconnected experiences and feature bloat. I led the visioning for its redesign — workshops, an end-to-end vision prototype, then the roadmap, team structure and architecture that carried it to a shipped MVP.

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02 — Feature

Helping physicians gain context when time is precious

The pre-visit brief was working as a concept and failing as a page — clinicians were being asked to read where they needed to scan. I ran design experiments, studied how mature products in adjacent industries solve the same problem, and shipped three information-architecture improvements into the alpha build.

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03 — Care coordination

Improving the care for hospitalized patients

Health Navigators were tracking hospital admissions for One Medical's highest-risk patients in a copy-paste spreadsheet. I led the design of an Admissions Board built into the EHR, aligning multiple teams on where it should live and what care teams needed at a glance: clear ownership, service standards and next steps.

See the case study
The redesigned Admissions board.

03 — Skills

What I actually do

  1. Product & UX design

    UX architecture, research with real users, and prototypes that survive contact with engineering.

    • User research
    • Information architecture
    • Prototyping
    • Design systems
    • Front-end build

  2. Brand & identity

    Type, palette and layout, plus the constraints that keep it consistent.

    • Typography & color systems
    • Art direction
    • Release art
    • Brand guidelines

  3. User Research & Testing

    • Usability testing
    • A/B testing
    • Customer interviews
    • Survey design
    • User intent analysis
    • Competitive analysis

  4. Data Visualization & Information Architecture

    • Data visualization principles
    • Information hierarchy
    • Dashboard design
    • Visual language systems

04 — Contact

HAVE AN IDEA IN MIND?LET'S CONNECT ANDBRING IT TO LIFE.

blancoslingerland@gmail.com

BACKED BY RESEARCH, DESIGNED TO SCALE, HUMAN CENTERED.