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
- blancoslingerland@gmail.com
- 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