athenahealth

Services

Design

Overview

“The team at Rustle & Spark was great to work with. While we were a bit all over the place, they helped us focus and brought clarity to our tasks. Communicative, professional, on-time, and on-budget. Couldn’t have asked for more.”
- Micah W., Chief Creative Officer

That feels better…

A billion-dollar health technology company, athenahealth provides network-enabled services for healthcare and point-of-care mobile apps.  For these systems to work, elegant and intuitive user interfaces are mission-critical.  After all, if you don’t know what to click on, you won’t use the app.

With multiple deadlines bearing down, they turned to Rustle & Spark to design a library of icons that would leverage new brand standards and apply them to a range of interface sizes for everything from desktop applications to smartphones.

We standardized visual taxonomies across audiences and platforms to create consistent experiences even as users moved between roles.  A physician in one interaction might be the patient in another, and our approach resolved long-standing confusion and frustration.

Shortly after completing this work, athenahealth was acquired for $17 billion.  Totally unrelated. Or not?

What’s on your mind?

Have a problem you’d like to bounce off us? Or maybe you’re not even sure what to ask. That’s fine too, we’re happy to spend a few minutes talking through the opportunities and challenges you’re contending with and offer some insights on how to tackle them.

How can we help?

If you’ve come this far, something’s on your mind. Drop us a line and we’ll make time to discuss whatever that is. Maybe we can help with it. Maybe we can suggest a new way to apply your internal team to the problem. Or we can make an appropriate referral. At the very least, we’ll both make a new connection.