Professional project · Healthcare

Maxicare Members Portal, a clearer healthcare portal across devices

A new Members Portal bringing healthcare services into a responsive interface, with clearer navigation and guided flows for consultation bookings and medical test requests.

Role
UI/UX Designer & Illustrator
Duration
9 months
Platform
Responsive PWA
Tools
Figma, Illustrator, Fresco, Procreate, Notion
membergateway.maxicare.com.ph
Members Portal home on desktop: sidebar navigation, four service cards for consulting a doctor, requesting medical tests, teleconsultation and home service, and upcoming appointments
Overview

Replacing an outdated portal, and doing more with it

Maxicare needed a new Members Portal to replace an outdated interface and expand the services available to its members. The project involved a new portal structure alongside an updated visual design, helping members access healthcare services and manage appointments while accommodating functionality beyond the original platform.

This case study focuses on my contribution to the portal's UI, from low fidelity wireframes to responsive high fidelity designs.

My contribution

Turning requirements and journeys into screens

As an individual contributor, I created low and high fidelity designs and illustrations, and worked on the design system for the Members Portal. The CX Designer led research and user journey mapping, while I took part in affinity mapping sessions to help organize findings and inform the interface work.

My focus was translating requirements and user journeys into screen layouts, clear information hierarchy, and consistent visual patterns across the portal.

Lead UI/UX DesignerUI/UX Designer & Illustrator (me)Junior UI/UX DesignerProject ManagerCX Designer
The challenge

More functionality, still understandable

We needed to introduce more functionality while keeping the experience understandable. For my interface work, that meant considering how services were grouped, how actions were presented, and how detailed tasks could be broken into manageable screens.

1

Difficult navigation

Members struggled to locate important features and access services.

2

Limited functionality

The existing platform offered basic features that did not fully support members' needs.

3

An outdated interface

The visual presentation needed to evolve alongside the portal's expanded capabilities.

Research informing the interface

What members told us they wanted

The CX Designer led research into members' needs, pain points, and healthcare journeys. In affinity mapping sessions, the team grouped findings and identified themes. They pointed to a preference for:

Affinity mapping wall: printed wireframes of the consultation booking flow on the left, with sticky notes grouped into themes such as search box, expectations, doctor expectation and account creation
Affinity mapping session: findings on sticky notes, grouped into themes beside printed wireframes of the consultation flow.
  • Searching for clinics by city or landmark
  • Clearly identifying the service to book
  • Seeing available appointment times
  • Comparing clinics using distance information
  • Receiving confirmations through email or text
  • Receiving booking confirmations without needing an account

These findings gave direction, and were weighed against the portal's policy selection and verification requirements rather than treated as features to implement automatically.

Establishing the structure

Wireframes first, then high fidelity

Low fidelity wireframes explored how the expanded functionality could fit into the portal: where information sits, how services are reached, and the order of decisions in each flow. They gave the team a way to review the experience before committing to visual design. Once approved, they became the foundation for the high fidelity designs.

The dashboard and consultation flow in low fidelity, including a search doctor path, with notes for errors (no clinic, doctor or time selected) and edge cases (dates with no available slots). Select the image to enlarge it.
The same flow in high fidelity, from the dashboard to booking summary and success, including the cancel booking dialog and notes to developers on the close and back buttons. Select the image to enlarge it.
Designing the portal UI

A clear relationship between information and actions

The high fidelity designs introduced an updated interface aligned with Maxicare's branding. Layout, spacing, typography, and grouping separate supporting details from the controls members need to use.

Related screens needed to feel connected even when they supported different tasks, so a shared visual language runs across the portal while each service presents its own requirements. The dashboard tracks upcoming appointments, connecting the booking flows with the wider portal.

membergateway.maxicare.com.ph
Members Portal home on desktop: a sidebar replaces the mobile bottom navigation, and the service cards and upcoming appointments sit in a centered column
Across devices

One recognizable portal, desktop and mobile

The Members Portal is a responsive Progressive Web Application. I designed desktop and mobile layouts, adapting the presentation to the available space while keeping the same hierarchy and visual direction, so services, appointment information, and actions sit in layouts suited to each screen size.

Consultation booking

One decision per screen

The consultation flow guides members through a sequence of selections, with a progress indicator showing where they are. Each screen focuses on the information needed for the current choice rather than presenting every decision at once.

Clinic selection combines search with distance information, supporting the finding that location matters when choosing a provider. The designed flow includes email and mobile notifications, with upcoming appointments on the dashboard.

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Medical test requests

Different information, same portal

Medical test requests need a different set of information from consultation bookings. My interface work addressed these service specific requirements while staying visually consistent with the consultation flow and the rest of the portal.

Appointments then appear on the dashboard, with notifications supporting updates.

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Development handoff

From approved designs to implementation

The approved designs went to the development team with supporting materials, and the design team stayed close to clarify details during implementation.

Documentation

The intended layouts and interactions, written down.

Prototypes

How each flow behaves, as a reference during implementation.

Assets

Exported for the development team to build with.

Reflection

Individual flows, one product

This project let me apply UI and visual design inside a collaborative healthcare product team, connecting user journeys and requirements with screen structure, hierarchy, responsive layouts, and visual consistency. Consultation booking and medical test requests had different requirements, but both needed to feel like the same Members Portal.

Milestone
Approved designs and development handoff
Not covered
Post launch usability and performance results
Companion case study

The illustrations behind the portal