A-trip
An interactive trip planner which can help users create and change route plans quickly and find partners to travel together.
Project Overview
The source of the pain point is that I, as a person who likes to travel, always take time to rebuild the trip because of the unexpected situation during the trip, which affects the overall time and mood. Through my interviews and questionnaires, I found that both students and workers will encounter this situation nearly in every trip. Throughout the creation of A-Trip, I conducted several remote and in-person interviews with people around 18-50 years old, who like or want to have a trip.
Duration
10 weeks, 2020
Project Type
Individual Project
Generate exclusive travel route and accommodation recommendations in five minutes
Generate different routes for you to choose from. According to different starting points, you can plan the travel depending on your interest. According to the travel notes of interest match route, sum up the overlapped itinerary to re-schedule your route in real-time if you face some emergency situation.
Automatically match people in the same line according to the travel plan
You can share your travel plans (or routes), find people with similar interests, meet a little lucky in the journey, and complete the next adventure.
Problem Statement
At present, there are many travel-related apps and websites on the market, such as Ctrip, Airbnb, booking, Qunar, Wasp nest, etc. Some of them focus on the function of booking air tickets, some of them focus on the function of hotel reservation, and the function of communication among travelers. How- ever, no software can integrate the specific needs of users to plan routes belonging to different travelers. But is travel planning a multi-dimensional thing? It's the unification of all the tedious things. So at present, when users make their own travel plans, they usually need to spend several days or even weeks to compare routes, check strategies, sort out sequence logic, calculate travel time, and make emergency plans. Moreover, in the process of travel, if any part of the plan has problems, such as the time exceeds expectations, or the city is experiencing heavy rain, users need to spend a lot of time adjusting and changing their plans. This will greatly affect the mood of travel, but also affect the normal work and living arrangements.
Who is A-Trip for?
The source of the pain point is that I, as a person who likes to travel, always take time to rebuild the trip because of the unexpected situation during the trip, which affects the overall time and mood. Through my interviews and questionnaires, I found that both students and workers will encounter this situation nearly in every trip. Throughout the creation of A-Trip, I conducted several remote and in-person interviews with people around 18-50 years old, who like or want to have a trip.
Quote from Interviews
“I don’t know how to do a good trip plan, I think I need to do lots of work and how to do strategy”
“Generally, when encountering differentiates during y journey, I will try to figure out by myself, but very tired.”
“When meeting a wonderful scenery, I always want to take pictures to save as a memory and share my mood with others.”
“If I have to change the trip plan, I will consider additional costs and estimated time. Sometimes, I have to give up some places I really want to visit.”
Insights of A-Trip
Point1: generate exclusive travel route and accommodation recommendations in five minutes
Point2: Automatically match people in the same line according to the travel plan
Point3: Sharing mood and experience with others
Paper Prototype Test
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Have some logical problems in many details.
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After choosing the destination city, whether need more details about the city or related accommodation recommendations.
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The inability to modify the confirmed travel plans in time.
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Many testers are very interested in the matching partner function, but they are also full of security concerns.
Visual Design
Low-Fi Test Result
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“Make a trip” change to “plan a trip”
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When clicking the map can link to the detail page
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Moment history can be put back to the next page.
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“Route Recommendation” can change to “Create a route”
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lots of test users click “add to list” and ignore the detail page (find the reason)
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concerned about the order of the type of trip on the second page (why take children first)
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Can delate some steps
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combination functions should be click
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maybe can add a “share” on the moment page
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can add a HOME button after combination page, someone just wants to finish this step
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Homepage button change to “platform” could be more clear
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High-fi wireframes
