# Cancer Institute redesign for Cedars-Sinai Cedars-Sinai Medical Center hired Perficient Digital as a consulting team for user experience. My role on this project was primarily as an information architect on the Perficient XD team. ![[2017_cedars-socci-p-800.png]]Final design for the Cancer Institute, circa 2017 This project lasted from October 2016 (?) to April 2017. # The Journey The Cancer Institute was identified as the pilot of the redesign project based on a content audit I conducted and the client's department priorities. As part of the navigation and content work, I worked on the following - conducted cancer literature review - conducted nurse navigator interviews - helped facilitate persona workshops - created the rubric and conducted the pilot content audit that was used for content migration until its larger project completion in 2019 - ran design studios with client team ![[cedars_socci-persona-workshop.png]] Persona Workshop, July 2016        Design studio creating wireframes through sketches and sticky notes, 2016 # The Outcome The new design was launched. I did not collect any information on how well this effort helped since the team moved on to continue the work on other topics. # Learnings - Facilitating workshops on proto-persona development - Conducting secondary research through a literary review - Learned alongside mentors [Jeff Tang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-tang-8324a22/?ref=graceglau.com), [Karen Bachmann](https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenbachmann-uxresearcher/?ref=graceglau.com) about IA and research work for clients. - Learned about managing client and team expectations from Account Director [Nathan Zahn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-zahn/?ref=graceglau.com).