Roman Yanish

Senior UX Researcher

I believe in designing solutions that make life easier for real people.
I connect businesses with their consumers through user-centric research practices. With a background in partnerships and outreach, I bring a uniquely personal touch to user research.

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Portfolio Highlights

  • Vizient Operational Insights

    Led a user interview sprint in a multi-billion-dollar healthcare landscape, refining the MVP product strategy to reflect user needs, goals, and pain points. Deliverables include: persona-specific research objectives, collaborative question-writing workshops, and a synthesized findings report.

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  • Aptitude Book of Business

    Helping supply chain officers, account managers, and suppliers understand their supply chain performance, risks, and opportunities. Researched, designed, and validated a high-performance analytics dashboard in a multi-billion-dollar supply chain marketplace. User interviews, user interface design, and usability testing.

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  • Museum of Art Membership Experience

    A reimagined membership experience based on large scale surveys, interviews, and data analysis aimed at addressing a consistent business challenge: low membership retention. Created a plan in to increase program revenue, donation forecasting, and member satisfaction based on data-backed user journies and program features.

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Refining the product strategy for an analytic platform used by hospitals to increase efficiency, make staffing decisions, and improve patient outcomes.

Vizient
Operational Insights

User Interviews

Reimagining the museum membership experience—structure, benefits, journey—to increase membership retention, reflect user values, and drive revenue.

Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
Membership Program

User Interviews, Surveys, Data Analysis

Portfolio Highlights

  • Vizient Operational Insights

    Led a user interview sprint in a multi-billion-dollar healthcare landscape, refining the MVP product strategy to reflect user needs, goals, and pain points. Deliverables include: persona-specific research objectives, collaborative question-writing workshops, and a synthesized findings report.

    Password Protected

  • Aptitude Book of Business

    Helping supply chain officers, account managers, and suppliers understand their supply chain performance, risks, and opportunities. Researched, designed, and validated a high-performance analytics dashboard in a multi-billion-dollar supply chain marketplace. User interviews, user interface design, and usability testing.

    View Project

  • Museum of Art Membership Experience

    A reimagined membership experience based on large scale surveys, interviews, and data analysis aimed at addressing a consistent business challenge: low membership retention. Created a plan in to increase program revenue, donation forecasting, and member satisfaction based on data-backed user journies and program features.

    View Project

Recognition & Testimonials

  • Thank you for being SO dedicated and thorough with th VOC we've been enaged with recently. You've worked thoughtfully and tirelessly and your work is top-caliber.

    Lori Drozd, Director, Business Analyst

  • Roman helps keep me level and offers valuable insight from users!”

    Chelsea S., Project Manager

  • “Roman, Thank you for going above and beyond. You were a important part in the success of our very first member VOC workshop. I appreciated all of the collaboration before and during the meeting.”

    Jed C., Product Director

  • “Roman Yanish brings freshness and vibrancy to his designs. A bold use of color and deft composition runs throughout his work. An added bonus of working with Roman is that he is a keen observer of nature and of culture, and he imbues his designs with this alertness.”

    Nicole Paisely Martensen, Tierra Consulting & Design

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