
Envisioning Highmark Health’s workplace of the future leveraging Microsoft Office 365. I contributed to designing a vision, aimed at creating a better employee experience.
Timeline & Contribution
I rolled on this project from November 2019 - December 2019. I was responsible for synthesizing the outcome of 5 design thinking workshops and designing the Digital Hub prototype
Role
Visual Designer
Problem Space
Highmark Health has a history of rapid growth through acquisition, which resulted in different company cultures and disjointed IT infrastructure. Technology became a blocker rather than an enabler for Highmark Health. Employees were frustrated with the outdated systems they were using and the lack of communication from upper management. All this led to employees having a difficult time performing daily functions and tasks.
Outcome
The team and I delivered an interactive storyboard showcasing the future of healthcare with Microsoft 365 technologies from the use cases discovered in the workshop. It was presented to Highmark with great success, which led to the success of a 3-year transformation roadmap.
Storytelling
After the team conducted the workshops, they collected the notes and feedback from the employees. We then collaborated to synthesize the findings and created 5 different stories, all around the future of what Microsoft technologies can bring to enhance the workplace experience.
The Hub
The Digital Hub has a combination of out-of-the-box and custom web parts, presenting a rich 360° view of daily tasks, metrics, notifications, insights, documents, and activities, showing a contextually relevant mix of each employee’s personal items and across their full team.
Interactive Storyboard
The team used a storytelling approach to paint a picture of the future of the workplace experience, where employees are connected anywhere, anytime, on all devices, including desktop, mobile, voice UI, and projection.
Five everyday use cases were covered, assuring that challenges identified during the discovery phase were addressed in a meaningful way.