PRODUCT DESIGN · PHARMA COMMERCIAL ANALYTICS

Launch Analytics: designing for the decision, not the dashboard. 🖌️

Five data sources. Two teams. One fragmented view of launch performance. I designed a role-aware analytics experience that helped commercial teams move from a headline KPI to the underlying driver — without getting lost in the data.

MY CONTRIBUTION

UX discovery → information architecture → user flows → wireframes → high-fidelity UI → prototyping → Power BI handoff → user documentation

ROLE
Product Designer
DURATION
4 months
PLATFORM
Power BI · Figma
USERS
HCP · DTC · Partners · Leadership
01

Outcome: less reporting, more decision-making.

70%
Reduction in reporting effort
4x
Faster Campaign Monitoring
50%
Faster Decision Cycles
✓ My ownership
  • Led the UX process from discovery through high-fidelity design
  • Translated business and analytics requirements into role-based workflows
  • Prototyping and handoff
  • Collaborated with teams
🗂️ File📌 Ownership🕐 12:00 PM
✓ Deliverables
  • Journey / workflow maps
  • Wireframes V1 & V2
  • Information architecture
  • Component specifications
  • Power BI-ready layouts
  • Interaction / handoff specs
  • User manual
🗂️ File📌 Delivery🕐 12:00 PM
02

The problem was not "more data."

Commercial teams had the data, but not a shared way to understand it or act on it.

⚠️ DANGER: fragmented reporting blocks faster campaign decisions.
  • Fragmented — Campaign data spread across multiple vendor systems.
  • Siloed — HCP and DTC teams operated with different reporting cadences and mental models.
  • Delayed — Static weekly reports arrived 3–5 days late.
  • Not actionable — Managers could see headline performance but not the driver behind it.
  • No benchmark — Partner/vendor comparisons required manual merging.
THE UX QUESTION
"If a campaign director has 90 seconds in a boardroom, what do they need to see? And how do they get from the signal to the cause?"
What happened Why Where Who
✏️
03

Research changed the shape of the product.

I combined stakeholder discovery, workflow analysis, existing-report review and iterative usability feedback to identify where the current experience broke down.

Stakeholder discovery·Workflow mapping·Existing-report audit·Persona / mental-model analysis·Iterative usability feedback

DIFFERENT MENTAL MODELS

HCP and DTC teams interpreted "performance" differently, so a single generic view created friction.

BACKWARD-LOOKING REPORTING

Weekly static reports made it difficult to respond during an active campaign window.

HEADLINE ≠ DIAGNOSIS

Users needed a path from a KPI anomaly to the partner, vendor or campaign driving it.

Evidence
Insight
Design response
HCP / DTC workflows differed
Shared data ≠ shared mental model
Distinct channel experiences
Reports were delayed
Users needed current context fast
Prioritise KPI + insight visibility
No root-cause path
Headline metrics weren't actionable
Make drill-down the navigation model
04

The core experience: diagnose in a few steps.

Instead of designing around data tables, I designed around the user's decision path.

Decision Model
✍️ This interaction model turns the dashboard surface from reporting to decision enabling tool
Executive Summary
What happened?
→
Performance Driver
Why it happened?
→
Channel Level Analysis
Where it happened?
→
Partner Level Analysis
Who and What is causing?
Launch Analytics information architecture — HCP and DTC Dashboards
Why This Structure — I avoided a simple tab-per-channel model because it would preserve the same silo thinking the research surfaced. The hierarchy keeps the campaign context shared while allowing HCP and DTC users to enter the workflows relevant to them.

Considerations — Power BI canvas and interaction limitations were considered from wireframe stage to reduce implementation rework. I provided template imports for quick turnaround in powerBI development.
05

One iteration that mattered.

The design evolved because the research changed the information model — not because the visual style needed another pass.

V1 · Combined view
  • HCP + DTC information in one dashboard
  • Higher cognitive load for different user groups
  • Weak path from KPI to root cause
  • Information hierarchy driven by available data
V1 combined view screenshot
→
V2 · Decision-first view
  • Distinct HCP / DTC experiences
  • Executive summary before detail
  • Drill-down hierarchy built around diagnosis
  • Power BI constraints embedded early
V2 decision-first view screenshot
06

The final interface makes the decision path visible.

A clinical, data-forward UI uses hierarchy rather than decoration: KPI first, drivers next, then the details needed to act.

Launch Analytics final dashboard interface

Complex data should not require complex thinking.
My approach is simple: understand the decision, structure the information around it, then make the interface disappear.

Launch Analytics • Product Design Case Study • Madura Sankar
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