Case Study  /  Geisinger 65 Forward
The redesigned 65 Forward landing page — photograph-led hero with a single clear call to action
2024 · Geisinger Health

65 Forward — a senior-first digital front door.

Reimagining the digital front door to a senior-focused primary care experience — across web, social, email, and print.

Role
Sole UX/UI Designer
Client
Geisinger Health System
Year
2024
Scope
Research · IA · UI · Multi-channel

A page built to convert — not just describe.

At a glance.

Geisinger 65 Forward is a senior-focused primary care offering, exclusive to Geisinger Gold Medicare Advantage members. The original landing page introduced the program faithfully, but didn't help the right people find it, sign up for tours, or convert into enrolled members.

I led an end-to-end redesign covering the core landing page, location-specific variants, the member ebook, and supporting wellness, social, and email touchpoints — turning a brochure page into a marketing engine.

7+
Touchpoints redesigned across web, mobile, ebook, social, and email
6
Locations, each with a tailored landing variant
1
Designer end-to-end — research through ship

A landing page that wasn't landing.

The legacy 65 Forward page packed every detail of the program into dense paragraphs sitting under a quiet, generic header. A roof full of services — personal wellness plans, longer visits, free events — buried in text.

The program's biggest asset — the spa-like atmosphere of the centers themselves — was nowhere visible above the fold. Prospects were being asked to read their way to a tour.

SEO was untargeted, the value proposition came late, and the page worked as a brochure for people already convinced. For everyone else, it didn't land.

Legacy 65 Forward landing page — text-forward, photo-light, action-quiet
Before · Live page (scroll within the frame).

Listening before redesigning.

Three parallel investigations to understand who was arriving on this page, what they needed, and where the experience was leaking.

Research synthesis board — user journey map for prospective and existing members, surfacing dead-ends and missed pathways
Research · Synthesis board — user journeys mapped against the live page, surfacing dead-ends (YouTube, doctor pages) and the missing internal pathway in.

Stakeholder interviews

Spoke with program coordinators and marketing leads at three 65 Forward locations to understand enrollment goals and friction points.

Analytics audit

Mapped drop-off points in Google Analytics. Bounce rates on the landing page exceeded 72%. Most users never scrolled past the fold.

Competitor review

Audited five comparable senior wellness programs — CenterWell, ChenMed, Oak Street and others. Most shared the same failure mode: long feature lists, stock photography, no clear CTA hierarchy.

Three problems worth solving.

The patterns from discovery converged on three issues — each one specific enough to design against.

Wrong audience reaching the page

SEO was untargeted. The page surfaced for broad Medicare queries rather than intent-heavy searches like "senior primary care near me." Visitors were arriving confused.

No visual proof of the experience

The centers are beautiful — warm, spa-adjacent, purpose-built for older adults. None of that came through in the original page. Text-only content couldn't build trust.

One CTA, buried below the fold

The primary action — scheduling a tour — appeared once, at the bottom of a long scroll. There was no persistent, contextual nudge at the moments of peak intent.

From brochure to conversion engine.

The redesign answered each finding with a specific design move — photography-led hero, location-specific variants, multi-channel funnel.

Redesigned 65 Forward landing page — photography-led hero with two clear primary actions, location finder, and supporting content below
After · Redesigned landing page — photograph-led hero, clear CTAs above the fold (scroll within the frame).
Hazelton location variant — same template with local photography, embedded events, and a 'now open in Hazelton' hero
Location variant · Hazelton — same template, local photography, embedded calendar of events.
Ideation board — sticky notes covering AI assistant, member portal, personalization, photography-led hero, and strategic mega-menu rework
Ideation · Sticky-note board — every design move traced back to a journey problem surfaced in research.
Three wellness-article template variations feeding traffic into the 65 Forward funnel
Wellness articles · Three template variations driving qualified traffic into the funnel.

Shipped, measured, iterated.

Outcomes three months after the redesign launch.

↑ 38%
Tour inquiry form submissions (3-month post-launch)
↓ 31%
Bounce rate on the primary landing page
Location-specific pages live, built from one template system
7+
Channel touchpoints sharing a unified visual language

Reflection

Working as the sole designer across a project this wide — from UX strategy to ebook layout to Instagram grids — required constant prioritization. The constraints were real: stakeholders with competing goals, accessibility requirements for a 65+ audience, and a brand system that predated modern design tooling. The discipline was learning which battles moved the needle on enrollment, and letting the rest be good enough.

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