
Trip Planner App
OVERVIEW
App that enable users to plan their trips according to their interests and budget, share and follow user's travel itineraries, with experiences, sightseeing, hotels and restaurants recommendations.
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This is an academic project that I did outside work hours.
ROLE
Research, Information Architecture, Interaction, Visual Design, Prototyping & Testing.
The problem
Difficulty in putting together a travel itinerary due to the excess of information found on the internet.
Goal
Help people to choose travel destinations and build itineraries according to their profile and budget.
Desk research
To better understand the topic, I conducted a desk research to find out how people plan their trips.
94% of Brazilians are interested in travel
According to the study: 2019: Tourism, consumption & airport: the Brazilian super tourist", presented at the PANROTAS Forum
86% of internet users travel for leisure at least once a year, with 51% traveling twice a year or more.
According to research published by Openion Box on February 22, 2019, where 2,084 people aged 16 to 60 were interviewed.
How do people plan a trip?
47%
Friends and family
27%
Travel agency
45%
26%
Instagram and Facebook
39%
Sites and blog
14%
Others
According to research published by Openion Box on February 22, 2019.
How do people travel during a leisure trip?
34%
Car
29%
Airplane
26%
Bus
According to research published by Openion Box on February 22, 2019.
Most people travel with their family and stay in hotels and inns.
92% travel within the country
According to research published by Openion Box on February 22, 2019.
5% leave everything to be resolved on the spot.
According to research published by Openion Box on February 22, 2019.
But 62% understand the importance of planning and start preparing months in advance.
According to research published by Openion Box on February 22, 2019.
Certainties, assumptions and doubts
I organized all the information collected in desk research to understand what I see as certainties, assumptions and doubts.

Online survey
In order to learn a little more about people's behavior when planning a trip, we organized a questionnaire on Google Forms.
In total, we got 30 responses and validated some points from our Framework

Benchmarck
01.Tripadvisor
The application allows you to search for hotels, restaurants and attractions in your destination. You are able to save them as favorites, so when you decide to make the trip, you have the information without having to search again. In addition, it is possible to plan the trip itinerary relating it to the dates.


02.GoDiscover
The app uses images to give tips on sights, restaurants, bars, cafes and shops in different cities around the world and helps you to plan and organize a personalized map in just 2 minutes. The difference of GoDiscover is the ease of creating an travel itinerary without having time, and even at the last minute. The negative point of the app is that you need to be invited to be able to use it.
03.Airbnb
The app, in addition to letting you rent a house/apartment or room, also offers activities called experiences. The app uses geolocation to offer activities close to the user's location.

Personas
We analyzed the survey's results, and found that travel patterns varied more by age. Therefore, we decided to analyze 3 groups and created a persona for each one.



Empathy map
To understand them better, we developed the empathy map of each persona, to know what they think, what are their desires and pains.

User flow
Based on the results of the discovery process, I created a user flow diagram to determine the most necessary features.

Wireframe
After deciding the user flow, I created the wireframes directly on figma, for the major features in the user flow: home screen, quiz for users who haven't decided on a destination, my trips and new trip page.

Visual
Thinking about the UI, we decided to follow a clean design, to enhance the images.
Blue was decided to be the action color, present in links, buttons, and tab bar.
01.Home
The application allows you to search for hotels, restaurants and attractions in your destination. You are able to save them as favorites, so when you decide to make the trip, you have the information without having to search again. In addition, it is possible to plan the trip itinerary relating it to the dates.
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