Sarah Whinnem
Independent Product Design Consultant & Sabbatical
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Whinnem is a product design and design-systems leader with 15+ years of experience crafting intuitive, scalable experiences across healthcare, fintech, and consumer products. She has a proven track record scaling design teams and systems—building Betterment’s first design team and system and growing Flatiron Health’s design org from 5 to 25+ while stewarding a system used across 20+ products. Her strengths span UX/UI, product strategy, accessibility, and workflow mapping, with a particular talent for translating clinical and business complexity into safer, more efficient user journeys. After a recent sabbatical for creative exploration and strategic reflection, she’s returned focused on mission-driven roles at the intersection of care delivery and design systems. She combines hands-on execution, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration to drive measurable impact in engagement, conversion, and product consistency. An early software and graphic designer turned leader, she brings both engineering fluency and aesthetic rigor to long-term design strategy.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BFA Graphic Design, BFA Graphic Design at American InterContinental UniversityGraphic Design Multimedia, Graphic Design Multimedia at Manchester Community College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (70)
minification9
redirect8
svgo8
svg7
optimization7
optimizer7
cli7
php-class7
nodejs7
sketch6
wordpress6
svg-files6
javascript6
placement6
wordpress-plugin6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
madysondesigns/quicknote
Sep 2017 - Jan 2022
A simple note field that lives in a new browser tab
Contributions:16 commits, 12 PRs, 41 pushes in 4 years 5 months
fieldbrowserchrome-extension
madysondesigns/dotfiles-redux
Oct 2016 - Nov 2022
Better (hopefully speedier) dotfiles.
Contributions:2 PRs, 52 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 2 months
dotfilesvimzsh
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