A best in class experience for a best in class hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital, one of the oldest and most respected hospitals in America, chose Genuine to redesign and reengineer their website to better reflect the MGH experience. As a hospital, MGH strives to provide a “frictionless experience” for patients. But their website did not live up to that expectation. It was not responsive, not intuitive, and not able to personalize the experiences of its various audiences from patients to caregivers, providers and researchers.
Connecting the right audiences to the right information
Understanding patients, caregivers and physicians all have unique wants and needs, we deployed an end-user-first strategy rooted in empathy. This strategy took shape through a UX design, discovery and definition process that involved building internal stakeholder alignment, a persona-driven approach to content and task mapping and the development of a patient-centric Information Architecture.
To ensure success, we conducted user testing at four stages: tree testing on IA, usability testing on wireframes, impression testing on design comps and accessibility testing in partnership with Perkins.
The new website, which launched at the end of 2019, turned the customer journey into a personal, valuable experience across devices. With a design system that beautifully translated the MGH brand identity for the digital space and helped reinforce the right hierarchy within a complex organization, the new site lived up to the MGH name.
Considering both sides of the user experience
Of course, the end-user isn’t the only user. So we never lost sight of the marketers, who required a scalable platform that could support their ambitious marketing plans. Our user-friendly documentation and componentized approach supported the content authoring experience, and agile development was done in close collaboration with the clients and their partners.
