🌿 UX Case Study: Wellness Perks
Project Type: Emotional Design Final Project
Team: Jinbo, Leo, Rui
Role: UX Design, UI Design, Prototyping, Strategy
🎯 Overview
Wellness Perks is a conceptual wellness platform designed to support urban professionals in managing stress and preventing burnout. By rewarding users for engaging in relaxation and self-care activities, the app transforms wellness into a gamified, emotionally uplifting experience.
🧘 Concept
Sarah discovers Wellness Perks, a digital space that rewards her for taking time to breathe, reflect, and reconnect. She earns points by completing challenges—such as guided meditations, journaling, and nature walks—and redeems them in a reward shop.
📱 Key Features
- Point Tracker: Transparent tracking of completed activities, badges earned, and point totals
- Community Feed: A social feature to celebrate personal wins and foster collective wellness
- My Groups: Group-based challenges that promote teamwork, accountability, and consistency
- Dashboard Integration: Shared with employers to align workloads with team wellness metrics
🧠Strategy & Emotional Impact
Wellness Perks was designed with emotional design principles in mind—centering users’ feelings of stress relief, validation, and motivation. Sarah's journey reflects a transformation from burnout to balanced engagement, achieved through intuitive UI and emotionally meaningful feedback loops.
🔄 Reflection
This project emphasized the value of emotional narratives in UX. Designing for mental wellness goes beyond aesthetics—it requires systems that reflect empathy, reward healthy behavior, and create communal support. Wellness Perks demonstrates how emotional design can generate both individual and organizational value.