Andrew Pandji

About

Andrew Pandji

Design lead, researcher & creative technologist

Starting in spring 2027, open to remote work or relocating to Singapore.

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)
  • 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

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

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

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