Joshua Follis | UX/UI Designer
Hi I'm Follis, a passionate UX/UI Designer with 7+ years of experience in crafting digital experiences that resonate with users. I thrive on the challenge of understanding user needs and translating them into usable designs. I am skilled in conducting user research, wireframing, prototyping, and working with cross-functional teams to deploy products.
A Little About Me
Initially drawn to game design and programming, I soon discovered my true passion when a new program started at my university: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Understanding the intricate interplay in how people interact with technology and digital interfaces ignited my curiosity. I quickly switched my major to the newly establied program and even helped shape its curriculum as I learned the innovative skills from my professors. To support my new passion I even picked up a dual degree with a second major of Technology Product Design and then to gain a global perspective I spent a year in Japan, learning the language and culture.
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After graduating, I moved back to Missouri and decided to dive deeper into UX design by pursuing a Master's degree with a specialization in User Experience Design.
My Design Process
Ideation
Defining, Exploration, Brainstorming, Whiteboarding, Sketching
Research
Business Requirements, User Research, Persona
Concept
Low-Fidelity Wireframing, Mockups, Storyboards, Workflows
Design
Hi-Fidelity Wireframing, Rapid Prototyping, Pixel-Perfect Mockups
Development
Epics, User Stories, User Acceptance Testing, Redesign
My Experience
At Benmedica I lead the overall UX & UI design, user research and managed the company's digital presence. I also assisted both the marketing teams in creating mockups to present to clients and development teams in maintaining processes that supported the company's services.​​
I helped take the existing Benmedica color scheme and UI style and worked with others to develop a true Benmedica Style Guide. A Style Guided used to inform the company's marketing and development teams of what exactly Benmedica's color scheme, font styles, padding styles, UI elements, application specs, and prefered tone and speech.
The Benmedica Style Guide evolved over the years as the company went through refinement and was recreated during a major company redesign in early 2024. I worked to create the new Style Guide to pair with the company's Branding Guide. The Style Guide bridged the gap between the Marketing Teams Branding Guide and the Development teams. Providing more details and elements for the Design and Development teams to work from.
Drug Change Review (DCR) is one of the major projects I took from idea to deployment during my time at Benmedica. The challenge for DCR was to create an interface that streamlined Benmedica's clinical team's research pipeline by presenting only the relevant data the clinical team needed.
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This involved a heavy amount of user and expert research to define what the relevant data was and how to present and label the data for quick digestion to facilitate speedy research. The user research involved not only lengthy discussions on what data the clinical team was currently using to preform research but also bringing in other experts and presenting alternatives and refinements on the data the clinical team needed.
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After the definition of what data the project was to focus on bringing to the clinical team I started working with the design team in whiteboard and sketching session to create an interface that would present the clinical data to users in a UI Style that was simplistic and non-cluttered. The goal for the design phase of the project was to not complicate the interface and focus on easability with a minimalistic design.
​​​Once an interface design had been finalized I started the creation of high-definition wireframes and prototypes to give the development team a target design to match during development. As development progressed I worked with the developers to both create more wireframes and prototypes to demonstrate features and functionality as needed and preformed QA testing on published features.​
The adoption of the DCR project was smooth and I worked continuously with the clinical team and its new members to redefine and supplement the data provided in DCR as the clinical teams needs morphed over the lifecycle of the project.
​DCR went through a full design iteration when the company's new branding style was adopted. The new DCR interface focused on using both the new color scheme and Bento UI style that was defined during the rebranding but also worked on integrating a single comprehensive design and UI element style for all project in the company.
