Helping employees see Plum as a partner for proactive health
UX Strategy
UI Design
UX Copywriting
How might we shift Plum’s role from a transactional claims app to a health companion that users engage with throughout the year?
Challenge
Our app’s usage was purely reactive and transactional. Users only logged in when they had an insurance claim. Key proactive services like tele-consultation had very low discoverability, which limited engagement and prevented us from being seen as a primary health partner. We were seen as a utility, not a year-round health partner, which was a missed strategic opportunity.
Approach
At this stage, the question wasn’t about designing a polished feature - it was about understanding whether employees would engage proactively at all. Stakeholders were cautious about committing heavy development effort without evidence, so my approach was to design a lean experiment that could go live quickly so we could see concrete proof of impact before scaling.
I focused on lowering the barrier to entry with something approachable and lightweight, and on making sure the outcome connected directly back to Plum’s core health services. This way, even as an MVP, we could validate the hypothesis while keeping development investment minimal.
Solution
I designed Health Assessments - a set of short, interactive quizzes on topics like stress, nutrition, and fitness that encouraged users to reflect on their health in a light, gamified way.
My core contribution:
- Designed the end-to-end user journey
- Created a non-clinical, gamified UI that made health feel approachable
- A dynamic results screen which based on their scores showed personalized insights and clear CTAs like “Book a telehealth session” or “Redeem your gym benefit”, directly linking engagement to the use of our core services.
Impact
Even as a lightweight MVP, Assessments delivered strong early signals. Within the first quarter of launch, the feature delivered measurable results:
- +24% increase in weekly active users
- +20% growth in telehealth consultations booked via the app
- +18% increase in wellness benefit redemptions
Project Details
Who: Anisha (Product Manager) , Rohit (Engineer) and I
How long: ~ 2 Weeks