Travelocity ExperienceFinderâ„ {beta}
The past 6 months or so, we have been working on a different approach to shopping for Travel. We have created an app (yes its a beta... maybe even closer to an alpha release) that changes the approach to selling a vacation. Rather than say "hey where do you want to go, when do you want to leave, heres some flight options, have a great time..." we decided to instead say "So what do you want to do when you get there? What type of experience do you want to have? What do you need/want to know about your destination?". Its an app that allows a person planning a vacation to dream, research and plan their trip based on what they want to do as opposed to how they are going to get there. They can view higher resolution photos, videos, 360 views, save items off to a wishlist for later review and much more.
Its not a full public release yet, but please feel free to take a look as comments and critiques are welcomed. Again this is still in the early stages so its quite possible some optimization still needs to occur in some areas. So if you see anything not operating correctly, not intuitive, or anything along those lines, please feel free to leave your comments.
So without further rambling from me... let me know what you think...
Travelocity ExperienceFinderâ„ {beta}
fyi... for the geeky info:
• Full Flash Front-end, Java Backend, OpenAMF middle Tier
• 8 lines of code in the fla
• 75+ as files (1 include, the rest are classes)
• Nothing hard coded
• back button / Deep linking integration
• web analytics integration
• and a bunch of stuff I've probably forgotten
Thanks in advance for taking the time...
-Dave
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December 15th, 2006 at 4:11 am
Nice one! But you already know that
Just a few details:
– initial loading never ended (I had to refresh the page)
– “View all hotels” button(when viewing hotel details) could be more obvious
– “More photos” could be open by default and stay open when thumbnail is clicked
December 16th, 2006 at 10:51 am
Thanks for your comments Igor. And yeah we have seen the initial loading issue and are working to identify the source. We think it may be a timing issue between when we get the remoting call back and the code is ready to handle it. And we will definitely take a look at making the buttons more visible, and the more photos tab “dockable”.
Thanks again for taking the time to offer your feedback, it is greatly appreciated.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:45 am
[...] Okay so the past few months have been a bit hectic to say the least and the blog has taken a back seat to coaching 6 year olds in soccer; organizing/coaching a basketball league for 9 year olds; finishing up another tattoo; getting the bike ready ride; getting back in shape; getting Travelocity ExperienceFinderTM into the next stage; finishing up the last bit of freelance work I still have on my plate; and oh yeah, Crucial Limit Chapter Two (coming soon I promise). Even with all of this going on though I still take time to notice the things going on in the industry lately and there has been a bunch going on. I wanted to take a quick minute to offer up my opinion (for what its worth) on a few topics. [...]