Resume | John Blanco-Slingerland
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John Blanco-Slingerland

Product designer with 15+ years across healthcare, enterprise software, and developer tools. Most recently design lead for a clinical AI platform, working where interface design meets systems design.

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

Home
Alameda, California
Phone
704-402-8651
Email
blancoslingerland@gmail.com
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/johnslingerland
Portfolio
jslingerland.com/portfolio

Experience

Jan 2025 – Sept 2026San Francisco, CA

Staff Product Designer

Counterpart Health (Clover Health)

  • Unified three AI features into one clinical workflow — pre-visit brief, clinical assistant chat, and scribe — by leading the platform architecture across teams.
  • Redesigned the AI-supported visit experience with per-category patterns, a progressive disclosure model, and information architecture that made LLM output scannable in the ninety seconds before an exam.
  • Designed a clinical assistant physicians could use with a patient in the room.
  • Partnered with engineering on architecture and data-model decisions, shaping product direction alongside the experience.

February 2022 - April 2024San Francisco, CA

Senior Product Design Manager

Amazon-One Medical

  • Led the provider and care team redesign, launching features that improved provider satisfaction as measured by quarterly surveys.
  • Improved usability of complex healthcare workflows as a hands-on player-coach with Research, Product Management, and Engineering.
  • Mentored and grew the product design team, supporting 5 designers into senior roles.

Aug 2017 - March 2022San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Product Designer–Senior Product Design Manager

Cisco–AppDynamics

  • Redesigned access management from a rigid role-based system to a scalable least-privileged model, reducing role creation time.
  • Simplified agent installation from a multi-step manual setup to two commands, with automated process detection and tagging.
  • Led design for the administrator and product education experiences, including a new Learning Management System (LMS).
  • Built and maintained design system documentation used across product teams.

2009 - 2017

Senior Product Designer & Design Director

Capital One · Womply · agency and startup roles

  • Led end-to-end design of Spend Analytics at Capital One, a data visualization platform used by 155+ retailers, with HTML/CSS prototypes and design QA that cut time-to-launch.
  • Shipped 9 features and a cross-platform design system at Womply spanning Android, iOS, and desktop, including a secure messaging app with passwordless onboarding.

Education

2009 - 2011

Art Institute of California - Sacramento

Bachelor's Degree, Web Design and Interactive Media

2002 - 2005

Catawba Valley Community College

Associate of Arts (A.A.), Graphic Design

Skills

Design
Design systems, information architecture, interaction design, prototyping, responsive design (iOS, Android, desktop)
AI & Platform
AI/LLM interface patterns, clinical and enterprise workflow UX, platform architecture, data visualization
Research
Usability testing, A/B testing, customer interviews, design sprints, facilitation
Leadership
Team leadership, mentorship, engineering and product partnership; Figma, HTML/CSS, design QA; Certified OKR Coach