Blubeez
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Travel
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Web App
Blubeez
Designing a social travel platform from zero to launch
SUMMARY
Blubeez was designed as a social travel platform that brings together destination discovery, community interaction, trip planning, and experience sharing in one product. I joined as the sole designer and took the platform from early concept to a launch-ready web application.
The core challenge was to design a product that felt inspiring like a travel platform, useful like a planning tool, and social enough to keep people engaged beyond a single trip.
THE PROBLEM
Most travel products solve only one part of the journey well.
Some are strong at bookings. Others are good for inspiration. A few support reviews or community. But for most travelers, planning still means switching between multiple apps to research places, validate recommendations, organize ideas, and share the experience later.
That fragmentation creates a broken journey:
Discovery happens in one place,
Trust-building happens somewhere else,
Trip planning happens manually,
Sharing becomes an afterthought.
Blubeez was an opportunity to bring those disconnected behaviors into one cohesive platform.
The solution
I designed Blubeez as a unified travel experience built around four connected product layers:
Destination discovery
Users could explore places through curated content, destination-focused browsing, and traveler-driven context.
Community and connection
The platform supported traveler profiles and social interaction to make recommendations feel more human and experience-based.
Trip planning
Users could save places, organize ideas, and move from inspiration into action without leaving the platform.
Experience sharing
Instead of treating sharing as a post-trip feature, the product made it part of the core experience through a visual, social feed.
The result was a product that balanced aspiration and utility—something between a travel guide, a planning tool, and a niche social network.
Information Architecture
Initial sketches
Final UI screens
OUTCOME
The final designs were delivered as a complete, launch-ready web application and implemented for release.
More importantly, the project helped define how a travel platform could move beyond isolated utilities and become a more connected user experience—from inspiration to planning to sharing.
As the sole designer on the project, it also strengthened my ability to work end-to-end, make decisions quickly, and bring structure to a broad product vision without losing usability.
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