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 (53)
minification9
svgo8
custom-post-type8
browser-tab8
shortcuts7
nodejs7
javascript7
svg7
cli7
optimization7
swiftui6
sketch6
wordpress6
sketch-plugin6
php-class6
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
browser-tab
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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