Departures

Enhancing Departures' Digital Experience

Enhancing Departures' Digital Experience

After Kettle's site redesign, I joined the team for phase 2, focusing on enhancing the Departures site.

Crafting Departures' Destination Guides

Crafting Departures' Destination Guides

Guides offer users insights and recommendations for global destinations, covering accommodations, dining, and beverages.

Our goal was to provide extensive recommendations while setting Guides apart from other articles on the site.

Challenges during Article Development

Challenges during Article Development

Initial template development raised concerns about page length and text asymmetry due to varying recommendation lengths.

The page length also lead to the issue of users getting lost on the page or having to scroll for a while to get to content they desired.

Solutions included a few new components.

Solutions included a few new components.

To address these issues, we introduced features like chapter links and truncated text.

These enhancements improved navigation and readability, and enabled writers to offer more detailed recommendations for each destination.

We also introduced a new hero design to showcase impactful images of the featured locations and to set it apart from other articles on the site.

Deliverables

Deliverables

Crafting bite-sized insights for seamless destination exploration, alongside an innovative article format enriching our site's content.

Crafting bite-sized insights for seamless destination exploration, alongside an innovative article format enriching our site's content.

Big thanks to the Departures and Giant Spoon team for the opportunity to work on this project.
Collaborators include Jesse Yuan, Aly Arrieta, Richard Sancho, and other members at Kettle.

Big thanks to the Peloton team for the opportunity to work on this project. Collaborators include Michael Showell, Jesse Yuan, Meagan Cheung, Marilyn Manno, and other members of the Kettle team.

Photography and articles owned by Departures.

© 2024 Julian Ybarra unless stated otherwise

© 2024 Julian Ybarra unless stated otherwise