AI Powered Travel Planning

Enhancing Trip Planning:
Your All-in-One Travel Organizer for App & Web

Role: UI/UX designer
Industry: Tourism
Tools: Figma, FigJam, Zoom, Adobe Suite
Duration: 3 Months – 2023

Introduction

Let’s Go” is an AI-powered travel platform that creates personalized itineraries based on users’ preferences and concerns. With features like an editable plan, interactive map, and AI-driven suggestions, it offers a seamless, user-friendly experience on both app and website, empowering users to control their travel plans while enjoying tailored recommendations.

Problem Areas

The Challenge in Today’s Travel Apps:

  • Overwhelming information

  • Lack of personalization

  • Not user-friendly

overwhelming
Solution

Incorporating AI as the Solution

  • AI’s potential in simplifying complex tasks.

  • Travel planning requires customization & personal touch.

  • Opportunity to revolutionize the travel experience.

Ai

How might we use AI to effortlessly personalize itineraries and simplify travel planning?

Project Goal
  • Create personalized travel itineraries using AI

  • Simplify the travel planning process for users

  • Develop an intuitive and user-friendly platform

Solution 1
Making Chatbots User-Friendly

Incorporated recommended interests imagery into the AI chatbox to streamline navigation and create a seamless, all-in-one experience.

Challenge

Make AI chatbots more user-friendly by ensuring that communication is faster and easier.

Focus on:

  • Easy-to-use design
  • Smart responses
  • Smooth integration with travel planning
Approach

In the discovery phase, we found that current AI chatbots are often not user-friendly, relying on basic chat interactions. We divided the AI interaction, along with an interactive map, into three parts and combined them into a single page after conducting three usability tests. The AI process now includes:

  • Trip Details: Collecting information about the user’s trip.
  • User Interests: Displaying interests with images based on responses.
  • Personalized Concerns: Allowing users to address concerns for a more tailored plan.
Prototype Let's Go- Part 1
Solution 2
Empowering users to review and modify their plans

Enabled users to modify the draft plan, offering greater control over the planning process with an interactive map that displays relative time and location

Challenge

Empower users by giving them control over their plans and adding a personal touch to ensure a truly personalized itinerary.

Approach

Our research highlights the importance of balancing AI with user control. Users want to maintain control over their planning process. To address this, we’ve designed the system to allow users to review and adjust their plans at every step while still receiving assistance from AI.

Testing & Iterations
Usability Phase 1
  • Adding an interactive map to the fully detailed plan.
  • Displaying the required equipment for each day.
  • Providing more precision and details for each day and activity.
 
Usability Phase 2
  • Adding the ability to reorder activities to adjust the plan.
  • Providing the option to edit the plan.
  • Allowing users to share, save, and download the plan.
Prototype Let's Go- Part 2
Solution 3
Fully detailed and customizable plan
Challenge

Ensure that users have a great experience with the “Let’s Go” itinerary.

Approach

A detailed, customized plan including daily schedules, necessary equipment, and interactive elements, all crafted from user-driven enhancements.