Nate BauerPrincipal Product Designer

I help healthcare teamsship better, faster.

I build Agile processes that help decentralized healthcare teams make steady, shippable progress.

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Collage of the Centene Recovery Platform: a polar bear sign-in screen behind the Service Lines claims table with filters, status tags, and sidebar navigation

When complexity hurts people

Redesigning recovery

Leading a $40 million initiative enabling hospitals to more effectively communicate with insurance companies and speed up claim processing.

  • Strategy
  • Facilitation
  • Team Leadership
  • Product Design
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K-T design system — sample of buttons, cards, and form components

Enterprise design infrastructure

Designing systems at scale

Leading the creation of a healthcare-focused design system that unified internal tools, improved consistency, and accelerated delivery across K-T's product ecosystem.

  • Design System
  • Strategy
  • Team Leadership
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Daily Noodle — a year-long mood heatmap above streak and entry stats on the Reflect page

Daily Noodle

Rethinking mental wellbeing and growth with AI

A self-initiated AI product: daily journaling teaches an AI a person's emotional and behavioral patterns, then reflects them back with suggestions to support mental growth. Designed end to end — and built with AI.

  • AI Product Design
  • Applied AI (LLM)
  • Mental Wellbeing
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