Amanda Klausmeier

About Amanda Klausmeier

Amanda Klausmeier is currently leading design strategy, craft, and execution across the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Clinical Decision Support portfolio in the VA Office of the CTO — modernizing clinical decision support software to increase positive healthcare outcomes for Veterans and reduce cognitive burden for clinicians. She has also worked across health care enrollment, health care claims, and VA.gov unauth experience pods.

She believes design, done well, can improve the lives of others — energized by 0-to-1 challenges and comfortable at the intersection of strategy and craft.

Areas of expertise

  • Product design strategy and team leadership
  • Design systems — foundations, components, governance
  • UX research, service design, and content strategy
  • Healthcare, government services, insurance, and enterprise software
  • Accessibility (WCAG) and complex workflow design
  • 0→1 product design and scaling mature platforms

Career timeline

  1. June 2023 – Present — Product Design Lead, Health portfolio, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
  2. June 2022 – June 2023 — Senior Product Designer, FM Global (contracted via Eliassen Group).
  3. January 2018 – May 2022 — Designer, California Casualty Insurance (P&C).
  4. December 2005 – January 2018 — Principal Designer & Founder, Paper & Crush.