Live public guide

FND Guide

Making difficult health information easier to navigate without losing its safeguards.

Product strategy · Information architecture · Accessible interaction design · Content governance · Verification

Live FND Guide home page asking what the visitor needs today and offering clear task-first routes.

The challenge

People looking for information about Functional Neurological Disorder can be tired, overwhelmed or unsure where to begin. The guide needed to make a useful next step clear while keeping urgent help, evidence and medical boundaries visible.

Built around the real constraint.

I structured the experience around the question a visitor has today — understanding FND, finding words for a symptom, treatment and living, finding help, supporting someone and rights. Page-level evidence and transparent boundaries sit alongside calm, mobile-first interaction rather than feeling like a separate governance layer.

Role

One connected product responsibility.

I held the thread from product direction and interaction design through delivery and evidence.

  • Product strategy
  • Information architecture
  • Accessible interaction design
  • Content governance
  • Verification

What was built

  • A public 37-route guide organised around the question a visitor has today
  • Symptom routing that helps people find information without identifying a cause
  • A searchable help directory with 17 visible service and support records at launch
  • Low-energy mobile navigation, reduced-motion support and no-account access
  • Page-level evidence, authorship and review context that makes information traceable
  • Carefully bounded routes for urgent help, functional seizures, treatment, support and rights

Verification

  • Production checks across all 37 canonical routes at desktop and mobile sizes
  • Keyboard, reduced-motion, reflow and small-screen review without claiming formal conformance
  • Safety-boundary checks for diagnosis, treatment and urgent-help language
  • Search Console ownership and a successful sitemap submission with 37 discovered pages
  • No project analytics, advertising cookies or account requirement

Lessons carried forward

What the work taught me.

  1. Task-first navigation can make difficult information feel more manageable.
  2. Safety becomes more useful when it is part of the interaction, not a buried disclaimer.
  3. Evidence and lived experience need different roles, both visible to the reader.

Have an idea worth building?

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