HCP Search Directory

HCP Search Directory

MY ROLE
Product Designer
PRODUCT
Web Portal Directory
INDUSTRY
HEALTHCARE

Optimizing the ability to find the top HCPs in healthcare.

Optimizing the ability to find the top HCPs in healthcare.

As the product designer of i2Vision, I led a 1 MIL project for our client Merck Pharmaceuticals. They asked us to create a robust HCP Search Directory tool that can help expand their networking engagements and connections by searching for the top HCP’s in healthcare, specifically ophthalmology.

As the product designer of i2Vision, I led a 1 MIL project for our client Merck Pharmaceuticals. They asked us to create a robust HCP Search Directory tool that can help expand their networking engagements and connections by searching for the top HCP’s in healthcare, specifically ophthalmology.

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Reduction in search time

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Reduction in search time

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Reduction in search time

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Clients have adopted the tool

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Clients have adopted the tool

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Clients have adopted the tool

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User success rate

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User success rate

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User success rate

FEATURE 01
Search top HCP’s flexibly
Find the top HCPs in the ophthalmology industry. Filter and sort through profiles based on expertise, clinical trials, and practice.
FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS

Quick search
Begin search with provided selections or jump straight into browsing profiles

10 Master Filters
Explore HCPs based on any parameter tied to their industry engagement and influence

FEATURE 02
Optimized profile insights upfront
Unique insights about each HCP shown upfront using badges and tags to make scanning experience easier.

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS

3 Different Views
Flexible viewing options to fit any scanning behavior preference

Tier Badges & Metrics

Quickly differentiate between top tier level HCPs to newly rising HCPs in the industry

FEATURE 03
Save your favorites to come back to
Group, organize, and save HCP profiles while searching. You can also export and save to share internally with team members.

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS

Customize list for future engagements

Save multiple lists for any purpose and come back to them to continue your search progress

PDF

Export & Share

Save lists as PDFs, or Excel sheets and upload them to any AI tools to gather and summarize insights

THE PROBLEM

Merck is new to the ophthalmology space and they don’t know who are the top HCPs in this industry. Both the client and the agency team have spent hours trying to organize and find all of this information. 200+ profiles needed to be created and with the old process this wasn’t possible.

PRIMARY USERS

Merck C-Suite Team

Focuses on finding HCPs to engagement with at conferences and events.

SECONDARY USERS

i2Vision Client Services Team

Engages with the client, provides recommendations of HCPs. They also research and gather information about HCPs.

PROBLEM 01

Agency team was searching across 15+ ophthalmology websites to gather information about a HCP

PROBLEM 02

Users were using LinkedIn, to spend 4-5 hours searching determining who are the top HCP’s to speak with

PROBLEM 03

Agency team would deliver information using slide decks about each HCP profile. The layout was dense, overloaded, and working in PPTX’s layout tools aren’t user friendly

RESEARCH APPROACH

I spoke with 8 members of the leadership team and 2 members of my client services team to understand what the HCP recommendation process looks like.

RESEARCH METHODS WE CONDUCTED

Live User Interviews

We took time to understand the gaps in the process and information is pivlotal to choose about an HCP.

Competitor User Testing

We followed a “measure twice cut once approach” and used competitor websites to test what features provided a smooth experience

Thematic Analysis & Synthesis

We sorted data into themes & synthesized each one, based on search behavior & information hierarchy

USER INTERVIEW INSIGHTS & REPORTING PROCESS

COMPETITOR USER TESTING

THEMATIC ANALYSIS & VALUE PROPOSITION

The Tedious Reporting Process

Data Analyst manually QA the data by scanning for trends and anomalies

Leadership team receives data and must manually export, clean, and merge data for their personal reports

Leadership members must manually interpret the historical data, and have difficulty see trends based on a single period

Distribution efforts take action AFTER food insecurity has rised

Self-report documents are received from Distribution centers

TAKES TOO MUCH TIME

DATA IS DISCONNECTED FROM EACH OTHER

DELAYED DECISION-MAKING

PRODUCT GOALS

DESIGN APPROACH & USER TESTING

Phase I & II : Early concepting and Mid-Fidelity

RESULTS

50%

of users struggled to identify upfront a HCP’s tier level on the results page

40%

had trouble understanding the context behind the HCP’s connections

Phase III: High-Fidelity Prototype

Improvements: Based on the results from the early phases, we improved the layout and validate our designs through this phase.

AfterBefore
Before
After

BEHAVIOR INDICATORS

Users reference and identified tier levels when completing the task when scanning through the results for ideal HCP candidates

Users understood the intention of connections relation to the HCP and no longer asked what they meant

FINAL SOLUTION + IMPACT

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© 2026 Czarina Argana. All Rights Reserved.

Let's Design Together

If crafting intentional and impactful experiences matters to you, please reach out to me:

© 2026 Czarina Argana. All Rights Reserved.

Let's Design Together

If crafting intentional and impactful experiences matters to you, please reach out to me:

© 2026 Czarina Argana. All Rights Reserved.