Andrew Pandji

Hi, I'm Pandji.

For a decade, I’ve been designing technology that amplifies human good. At Ascension, that meant improving prior-auth tracking to reduce delayed or denied care and increasing telehealth adoption by working with doctors. At TCARE, reducing the time to a care plan for a family caregiver in need.

At Washington University in St. Louis, I research how it could amplify calm and presence instead.

If you want to talk about a project, a talk or a workshop, or just say hi, email me.

CV

Experience

  • Aug 2025 – now
    Design research, teaching & consultingSam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis
    • Built a haptics testing platform end to end, scoped and ran the project for a three-person research team, and took the study through IRB
    • Built the website for a design leader's Emerging Patterns report and edited design leadership videos for two courses
    • Design consultant (contract, part-time) at Ascension; made decks for a leadership summit and board meetings
  • Nov 2019 – Aug 2025
    Senior Experience DesignerAscension
    • Led the design function in Clinical Transformation (2024–2025), training the two designers who joined
    • Led communications design on an end-to-end research project for pharmacy transformation (workshops, prototypes, user studies, service blueprints, journey maps). The work reached top leadership and started new workstreams
    • Led design of AuthConnect, a prior-auth worklist built to adapt across two EHR design systems (athenahealth's Forge, Cerner's Terra), deployed in 7 markets
    • Raised Video Chat adoption from 46% to 55% with features that fit clinicians' EHR workflow, plus training and onboarding videos
    • Shaped internal and external presentations with C-suite leaders
    • Gave three talks to Ascension's design community of practice (nudge and persuasion, design fiction, writing with personality)
  • May 2019 – Oct 2019
    Marketing SpecialistHOK
  • Aug 2018 – May 2019
    Head of ProductTCARE
    • Led product decisions and roadmap for the caregiver platform, cutting time to care plan from 55 to 25 minutes, done in one session (it had taken multiple days)
    • Piloted remote caregiving support as an employee benefit serving 50+ caregivers at a Fortune 500 financial org
  • Jun 2016 – Apr 2018
    Design FounderRetrofit Studios / Lumogram
  • Aug 2014 – Oct 2016
    Digital MarketingFull Circle HQ
  • 2014 – 2016
    Freelance Brand & Digital DesignerSelf-employed

Talks & Panels

  • Sep 2026
    MDes Student Showcase, Fall AI PerspectivesSam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis

    Panelist

  • May 2026
    Emerging Patterns in Design Leadership 2026This Is A Prototype (podcast), with Doug Powell

    Guest, published Sep 2026

  • Apr 2026
    Design for Extreme Weather: Technology, Community, and Preferable FuturesUX Day 2026, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Panelist

  • Feb 2025
    Think Big! Clinical Ideation WorkshopAscension (internal), Orlando, FL

    Co-facilitator

  • Oct 2024
    Healthcare: Where There's No Shortage of Need for DesignSTL Design Week

    Panelist

  • Jul 2024
    Writing Digital Experiences with PersonalityA Community of Practice, Ascension (internal)

    Speaker

  • Apr 2024
    Design FictionA Community of Practice, Ascension (internal)

    Speaker

  • Oct 2023
    Nudge and PersuasionA Community of Practice, Ascension (internal)

    Speaker

Teaching

  • Spring 2026
    Guest CriticUndergraduate Capstone Studio, Sam Fox School
  • Spring 2026
    Guest CriticDESIGN 2258 Interaction Design: Understanding Health and Wellbeing, Sam Fox School
  • Fall 2025
    Assistant in InstructionDESIGN 2258 Interaction Design: Understanding Health and Wellbeing, Sam Fox School
  • Spring 2025
    Guest CriticUndergraduate BFA Capstone Final Critiques, Sam Fox School

Education

  • 2025–2027
    MDes, Human Computer Interaction & Emerging TechnologySam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis
  • 2012–2016
    BFA, Communication DesignSam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis

Courses & Certifications

  • Oct 2024 – Mar 2025
    Community Arts Training InstituteRegional Arts Commission, Cohort 27
  • 2024
    Staff Designer: Influence & Lead as an ICMaven
  • 2024
    Emerging Patterns in Interface DesignNielsen Norman Group
  • 2022
    SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) 5.1 TrainingScaled Agile, through Ascension