Travelbees
Context

2022

Team

Just me!

Role

UX/UI Designer

Project Type

UX, UI, Product Design

overview

A social media platform for travelers, those who love to explore new places and want to share their travel experience with others. It allows travelers to find travel buddies by connecting with other users to a network of fellow travelers. Is an all in one app that makes their travel experience smooth, by allowing users to make travel itinerary, booking hotels, and booking plane tickets.  

Problem

1. The current platform might be hard to find travel buddies that fit their preferences.
2. No platform has booking plane tickets, finding travel buddies, social media, and posting travel experiences all in one app.

Solution

TravelBees, integrates and improves upon the most used features of competing products to solve user pain points. Simplifying the process of finding travel buddies and reducing the complexity of travel.

Research essentials features

Focus Areas
01

What products exist to find, save and share travel experience?

02

How do users interact with existing products?

03

What are users current pain points with existing products?

04

Which features are essential for travelers?

Statistics
User Interviews
Key Takeaways
01

What products exist to find, save, and share travel destination?

02

How do users interact with existing products?

03

What are users current pain points with existing products?

04

Which features are essential to find hotel, flight and restaurants?

05

Which features are essential to travel buddies?

06

Which features help users to make their travel experience smooth?

Competitive & Comparative Analysis

Competitive analysis was conducted to identify competitor's strengths and weaknesses to inform Travelbee's features and information structure.

User Flow

The primary user flow is the process of searching, saving and sharing with friends.

Branding

Logos
Typography & Color

Final Design

Sign In

Intro screen and onboarding

Search

Users land on the map screen after signing in and when opening the app, making searches quick and easy.

Travel Buddy

Users can use this function to connect with people, like finding travel buddies to travel together and messaging

Current Location

Explore activities, place to do and hotel. Allowing the user to view reviews

Social Feed

Users can follow friends and read their reviews or write a review and share pictures of their own travel experiences

Profile & Lists

Profiles feature posts, videos, bucket list and itinerary.

Discover

TravelBees recommends activities based on a users location, friends, saved restaurants, and their positive posts and reviews.