United Healthcare's most successful preventative health program ever

Real Appeal

Digital Health & Weight Loss

Over 3 Million Pounds Lost

UnitedHealthcare teamed up with Signature to create Real Appeal, a digital health program focused on helping people lose weight.

Despite years of effort by the healthcare industry, offering a weight loss solution that motivated people to make positive lifestyle changes proved challenging.

With over 40 years of weight-loss research, UnitedHealthcare understood a problem this big required a radically new approach. So, they asked us to engineer the Real Appeal program from the ground up.

Within 1 year, Real Appeal became UnitedHealthcare’s most successful preventative health program ever.

Our Contribution

Market & User Research

Consumer Profiling 
Competitive Analysis 
Market research/Trends 
Focus groups and Surveys

Vision, Strategy

Internal Stakeholder Alignment 
Internal Vision Roadmap 
Business Model Review 
Brand/Marketing/Comms Strategy

Product Definition

Service Design
Product Recommendations and Roadmap
User Stories
Technical Architecture
UX/UI
Prototyping

Reality Check (Kick the Tires)

Heuristic Review 
Technical Audit 
Marketing/Brand/Content Audit 

Development

Mobile App Frontend
Web Frontend

Product & Technical Support

Technical Scope and Resource Management
Technical Oversight of Development
Q/A Testing
User Feedback Testing
App Store Submission
Ongoing Product Strategy and Management

Brand

Brand Positioning and Persona Development
Brand Voice
Communications Architecture
Customer Experience

Design

Logo Development
Toolkits and Style Guide
Media Libraries (Email/Motion/Print/Digital Display/Sales)
Creative Templates & Assets
Photography
Copywriting
Packaging Design

The Program

Real Appeal

End-to-end User Experience

Real Appeal changes lives by combining clinically-proven weight loss methods into an engaging and highly-personalized experience.

To create that experience, Signature designed an end-to-end program with Hollywood-quality videos, online coaching platforms, digital tools, home-kits and more.

What We Designed:

Member Portal
Mobile App
Email and Notifications
Trackers that Synch w/ 3rd-Party Apps
At-Home Kit
500 Pages of Content
10 Hours of Video Programming
Fitness Workouts
Nutrition Guides

Branding & Identity

Real Appeal

Focused on wellness, not illness

Real Appeal is all about the journey towards a better lifestyle, guided by an excellent experience. That’s why Real Appeal participants are treated like members, not patients. Members of the program are given the support and tools they need to make changes, always in a positive light. We designed all communications and branding with a focus on wellness, not illness.

Features

Real Appeal

Custom Reporting

Participants personalize their program to meet their diet and exercise preferences, and can easily sync with third-party apps like Fitbit. With the reporting tool, Real Appeal coaches can monitor and advise participants based on patient outcomes.

Proven Results

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Studies Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals

Real Appeal’s unique ability to drive participation and produce clinically significant weight loss can translate into meaningful cost savings. In a first-of-its-kind, peer-reviewed study analyzing real-world claims data of nearly 15,000 participants, Real Appeal demonstrated more than 2:1 ROI in Three Years.

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Another study published in the peer-reviewed journal Obesity, used the Real Appeal program to prove the scalability and efficacy of online intensive lifestyle intervention in helping people lose weight.

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Outcomes

+3 Million Pounds Lost

Since its creation, the Real Appeal program has helped over 700,000 participants lose more than 3 Million Pounds.

5x Rate of Engagement

Real Appeal’s one-of-a-kind approach resulted in employee engagement five times higher than that of traditional disease-geared programs.

16% Annual Savings

Real Appeal participants saved up to 16% in annual medical costs compared to non-participants.

Client Response

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What our client had to say

“It was a pleasure working with Signature Creative through all stages of the development process. From branding, product design and layout, website and mobile development, Signature led and executed on great ideas with remarkable talent, and within an easy and collaborative ecosystem. I felt as though I had a personal concierge leading me through the entire journey, step-by-step. Signature makes the process fun, provides a personal touch, and delivers a quality product. I’d be happy to work with them again and again.”

LAUREN MURPHY

EVP Real Appeal

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