Ben Barnes
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Brand systems × digital experience × art direction

Turning Oura’s B2B brand into a system that scales.

MERGE was helping Oura translate a premium consumer health brand for employers, clinicians, and enterprise partners. I led across web and sales enablement—building a B2B storytelling system that could scale without losing the clarity and visual richness that made Oura distinctive.

Overview of the Oura for Organizations design system in Figma

Outcome proof

40+
enterprise deliverables brought into one shared visual system
3
new B2B web experiences for distinct audiences
2
designers enabled by shared decisions and AI-assisted workflows
Role
UX Director / Design Lead
Focus
Design Systems · Web · Art Direction · Sales Enablement
Scale
40+ deliverables · 3 B2B web experiences · 1 shared design system
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The opportunity

Oura needed to speak credibly to new B2B audiences without losing the brand people already loved.

My work included updating B2B website content, building three new web experiences, refreshing photography around a new ring generation, and supporting a growing sales-enablement library.

Each audience needed a different reason to believe—from clinical evidence and workforce readiness to metabolic health and athletic performance. The challenge was to make those stories persuasive in an enterprise context while keeping every expression unmistakably Oura.

What I led

I set the design direction across Oura’s B2B web and sales enablement work, managing two designers as we created a flexible system spanning one-pagers, presentations, and long-form content—including a white paper of more than 40 pages. I also introduced AI-assisted workflows to improve production efficiency while maintaining Oura’s premium brand expression across more than 40 deliverables.

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Before the system

Polished work, reinvented for every assignment.

The opportunity wasn’t to redesign Oura. It was to make strong B2B storytelling repeatable without making it generic.

Cigna Oura partner collateral before the shared system
Cigna
Essence Healthcare Oura collateral before the shared system
Essence Healthcare
Law enforcement Oura collateral before the shared system
Law Enforcement
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The idea

Build a storytelling engine—not a library of templates.

I reframed sales enablement as a narrative system, documenting the recurring visual and production decisions that were otherwise living in designer memory while preserving room for each audience to receive a different story.

How might we make Oura persuasive to employers, clinicians, and enterprise partners without flattening the brand into generic B2B communication?
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Building the system

A shared way to shape stories, make decisions, and produce the work.

The work documented foundations, components, usage patterns, image behavior, product UI treatment, and final QA. The system captured not only how the work should look, but how another designer could make the same kinds of decisions.

32-column grid rules
Grid · 32-column structure
Rules for preparing Oura app UI in collateral
App UI · Product screenshot rules
Flexible hero component variants
Hero · Flexible story openings
Image ratios and crop guidance
Imagery · Ratios + crop guidance
Oura sales enablement QA checklist
QA · Shared review standards
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System in action

One visual language. Different reasons to believe.

The system created recognition without demanding sameness.

The goal was never sameness. Technical, clinical, behavioral, product-led, and operational stories needed different emphasis while still feeling unmistakably connected.

GLP-1 Insights one-pager
GLP-1 Insights · Metabolic health
Cumulative Stress one-pager
Cumulative Stress · Behavioral health
Fertile Window one-pager
Fertile Window · Women’s health
Human Performance one-pager
Human Performance · Operational readiness
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Extending the B2B story

The same enterprise translation also had to work digitally.

In parallel, I helped update Oura’s B2B website content and build three new web experiences. The web work demonstrates the breadth of the assignment rather than implying that the sales-enablement system itself governed the website.

Oura for Organizations Athlete Performance webpage

Athlete Performance

One of three B2B web experiences. The device treatment keeps the web work visually distinct from the sales-enable system while showing the breadth of the assignment.

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Scale + impact

The team could move faster without diluting the brand.

Shared foundations reduced repeated decision-making, while AI-assisted workflows reduced repetitive production work. Two designers could create across very different enterprise stories without requiring the original designer to make every decision—or sacrificing Oura’s premium expression.

40+deliverables spanning distinct enterprise stories
3web experiences translating Oura’s B2B value
2designers supported by shared decisions and workflows
Premium brand expression, made repeatable across audiences and channels.