SnapCare

Designing a multi-sided 0→1 platform across web and mobile, with a shared design system and two distinct brand identities built to scale.

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challenge

SnapCare built an internal staffing tool during COVID, but operated it entirely on behalf of clients. As they pivoted post-pandemic toward long-term care and a new managed services model, they needed a public-facing platform that could serve three very different users: healthcare facilities, staffing agencies, and clinicians, each with distinct needs and workflows.

solution

I led the design of a 0→1 platform that transformed their internal system into a multi-sided product. That meant designing three distinct experiences under one umbrella, building the design system that held them together, and working closely with the program and sales teams to make sure the product told a clear story to users and prospective clients alike.

Before a single screen was designed, I worked with the program team to map out how the entire service model worked: who did what, when, and why. We distilled that complexity into a single diagram that became a sales tool. The fact that it ended up in pitch decks before the product shipped tells you something. Clarity at the system level makes everything downstream easier, from stakeholder alignment to individual screen decisions.


year

2025

timeframe

8 months

tools

Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Miro, Jira, Procreate

category

Design Systems, Branding, Product Design, Motion, Illustration

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SnapCare was entering a new market and needed to show up with confidence. Before designing any product screens, I built a comprehensive brand standards guide covering logo usage, color palette, typography, shapes, texture, and a sub-brand identity for their clinician-facing app, Booker. Having this in place meant every touchpoint, from product UI to pitch decks to marketing, pulled from the same system. It also gave the internal team the guardrails to stay consistent without needing a designer in the room for every decision.

02

I built SnapCare's design system from the ground up. Everything was tokenized — color, spacing, typography, corner radius, elevation — with semantic naming that grounded every value in its use case rather than its appearance. Instead of Blue 400, 500, and 600, the system used names like interactive, hover, press, and emphasis. Token naming was kept intentionally consistent between Figma and Storybook, with a longer view in mind: as AI agents become primary consumers of design systems, a token architecture built on clear, use-case-driven language becomes exponentially more valuable than one built on arbitrary values.

03

For healthcare facilities, the most critical task was creating and filling open shifts. Early on, that flow took over a minute to complete, which sounds minor until you realize this was something scheduling coordinators did dozens of times a week. After observing real usage and talking with the program team, I redesigned the flow to cut that time down to under 10 seconds. An 80%+ efficiency improvement on the task that mattered most to this user group.

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Staffing agencies were a crucial but often-overlooked piece of the ecosystem. If they couldn't easily see which shifts their workers were eligible for, the whole marketplace fell flat. After an initial release and feedback round, I redesigned the agency experience to surface open shift opportunities more prominently, directly improving their ability to place workers and generate revenue.

05

The clinician-facing mobile app required the biggest philosophical shift. The old model was passive: workers waited to be invited to shifts, and only SnapCare's own clinicians could use the platform. The redesign changed both of those things. Clinicians from any agency could now find and claim their own work, making SnapCare the manager of the experience rather than just another agency in the mix.

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The original experience gave clinicians little control. Shifts were assigned, not chosen. The interface reflected that passivity.

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The redesigned experience put clinicians in control. Clearer shift discovery, upfront pay information, and a streamlined clock-in flow — built for workers from any agency, not just SnapCare's own.

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This storyboard maps the full clinician journey — from finding a shift to clocking out and getting paid — regardless of which agency they work through. It was the artifact that made the strategic shift tangible: SnapCare wasn't just building an app, they were becoming the platform.

40%Reduction in contract labor utilization
9%Reduction in hourly rates
60%Less time spent on contract labor management
1:3One semantic token system spanning 3 distinct products

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