I led the end-to-end UI/UX design of Hom-Away’s responsive booking platform, connecting property discovery, detailed evaluation, and checkout. The design used immersive imagery, a persistent booking summary, and upfront price breakdowns to help travellers evaluate properties and understand what they were booking.
Role
Product Designer (UI/UX)
Collaboration
CEO, Product Manager, and Developer.
Timeline
Four-week sprint
Platform
Responsive web, desktop and mobile.
The experience was designed to support credibility and booking completion by making property selection and cost evaluation clearer. The original does not provide conversion, abandonment, revenue, or user-testing measurements.
A connected discovery-to-booking journey
The design linked search, date selection, filtering, property evaluation, and checkout within one responsive experience.
Visible booking information
Persistent booking modules kept price, dates, and the primary action accessible while users explored property details.
Earlier cost visibility
The checkout design separated base price, cleaning fees, and taxes before the final payment screen.
A new booking platform needed to establish confidence quickly
Hom-Away was entering a market where travellers already had high expectations for property discovery and booking. The experience needed to communicate credibility, help users narrow their choices, and present detailed property information without obscuring the booking action. Pricing, dates, amenities, reviews, and policies all mattered to the decision. The challenge was to make that information available in a clear sequence across desktop and mobile.
I used competitive heuristic evaluation to examine how booking interfaces balanced imagery, property information, and transaction clarity.
This informed a direction of transparent progressive disclosure: lead with the information needed to evaluate a property, keep pricing and booking actions visible, and reveal detailed content through organised secondary surfaces.
The original’s three-second imagery claim is not supported by a documented timed study. The refinement treats imagery-led evaluation as a design rationale.
Lead property pages with imagery and essential booking information
I prioritised an immersive gallery and a booking card containing price, dates, and the primary action. This created a clear starting point for property evaluation while keeping the next step accessible. It also avoided placing every property detail in the initial view
Organise detailed information through progressive disclosure
I placed extensive amenities and policy information in categorised, expandable sections. Users could investigate the details relevant to their decision without requiring the primary page to present all of them at once. This balanced information depth with a more focused page hierarchy.
Connect search, dates, and filters
I designed a prominent search mechanism, an intuitive date picker, and filters grouped around needs such as price, guests, and amenities. The design supported narrowing options within the browsing experience. The original describes filtering without page reloads; this account treats that as the intended interaction because implementation details are not documented.
The delivered design combined search and filtering, date selection, imagery-led property pages, persistent booking summaries, expandable detailed information, and a multi-step checkout.
I designed the responsive experience so mobile users could explore rich property content while retaining access to essential booking information.
The end-to-end design was completed in a four-week sprint. The original does not identify collaborators or distinguish design completion from the full implementation timeline.
Competitive heuristic evaluation is the documented discovery method.
The original describes a conversion-focused design but does not provide usability-test findings, booking-funnel data, or post-launch results. The demonstrated outcome is the delivered design approach and its capabilities.
The following learning statements are proposed reflections for your review.
Property appeal and booking clarity need to work together
Imagery supports interest in a stay, while pricing, availability, and policies support the decision to book. Both belong in the experience hierarchy.
Detailed content should remain easy to access
Progressive disclosure can reduce page density while preserving the information travellers need. Its success depends on clear labels and discoverable controls.
Price transparency belongs before commitment
Showing the cost breakdown before payment gives users a chance to evaluate the full booking cost before taking the final step.
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If you’re building something ambitious and need a senior designer who can move between product thinking, interaction, craft and delivery, I’d love to talk.
Based in Melbourne, Australia
Full Australian working rights
Open to senior product design opportunities and selected contract work.
