Earlier project · 2019

Doutor Já — Carteira Saúde

An appointment-booking product connecting affordable clinics to people without health insurance — designed to be sold by employers to their own staff as a flexible alternative to a traditional health plan.

Client Doutor Já
Year 2019 (May–Nov)
Role Sole UX Designer
Platform Mobile app + web

Problem

Neither the pitch nor the booking flow was built around employers as a sales channel.

Role

Sole UX Designer — ran field interviews and shaped both the research direction and the booking flow it led to.

What changed

4 field interviews reframed the pitch toward an employer-sponsored benefit

Journey map exposed where users dropped off (SMS, automated support, unclear site)

Booking flow redesigned around price/time/location, the info that mattered most

Outcome

The employer-benefit reframing was incorporated into the commercial pitch.

Starting from why people avoid a health plan in the first place

Before touching the booking flow, I looked at why this category of product struggles: most Brazilians don't have a health plan, but the ones who do treat it as something to protect at almost any cost. That gap between want and access is where an employer-sponsored benefit made sense.

71% of the Brazilian population has no health plan
83% of Brazilians value, want, or fear losing the benefit
70% of employees rank a health plan as a top-priority benefit

Talking to the people an employer benefit actually reaches

I visited Super Rede, a supermarket chain that offered Doutor Já as a benefit to its own staff, and interviewed 4 people there — the owner who buys the benefit, and the employees who would (or wouldn't) use it. Those conversations became the personas above.

  • The market owner ('Andrei') offers the benefit but never used it himself
  • The cashier ('Wander') finds doctors complicated
  • The manager ('Juliana') already takes care of her own health and uses it for her son
Super Rede — the supermarket where the interviews happened
Personas built from the 4 interviews: owner, cashier, manager

Mapping the journey to find where people actually got stuck

The interviews fed into a journey map across five stages — Discover → Start → Use → Deepen → Leave — tracking real drop-off points: SMS with too little information, an automated support flow nobody understood, a site that was confusing without context.

That map, not a guess, is what pointed at the booking flow as the place to redesign.

Discover

Little information, low credibility on the first contact (SMS/ad).

Start

Doesn't understand the automated support or the site.

Use

Can't find the clinic, the specialty, or their own benefit card.

Deepen

Specialist doesn't respond; clinic doesn't apply the agreed discount.

Leave

Stops paying for something they don't use — the benefit's churn point.

A booking flow built around price, time and location

The redesigned flow leads with the three things the journey map showed people actually needed to decide: which clinic, at what price, and when. A help popup appears if the user stalls on a step — a direct response to the "doesn't understand the automated flow" pain point from the journey map.

Step 0 — desktop search
1
Clinic detail, price up front
2
Integrated schedule, real time slots
3
Confirm, reschedule or cancel

Selling the benefit before anyone books anything

The landing page had to speak to two audiences at once — the employer deciding to offer it, and the employee deciding to use it — before either one reaches the booking flow.

A research-driven reframing, not just new screens

The main result wasn't a shipped feature — it was a shift in the product's own pitch. The interviews at Super Rede surfaced the employer-sponsored angle, and that reframing was carried into the commercial pitch alongside the redesigned booking flow.

  • 4 field interviews at a real client site, feeding directly into personas and a journey map
  • Booking flow redesigned from journey-map pain points, not from a generic best-practice list
  • Reframing toward an employer-sponsored benefit incorporated into the commercial pitch