User generated travel planning site to swap travel/trip plans
Can you please check our website/mobile page and post your comments for any suggestions on design/idea/anything that needs improvement on our beta product ?
Thanks, triPlanner Team
Here are some things I noticed after looking through it for a few minutes:
- I would plan on using something other than Wix to host your site for starters (at least I hope you have something else planned...anytime I see a Wix site, 99.9% of the time I immediately leave)
- There are some grammatical errors and typos on your About section
- I've never really been a fan of black page backgrounds as I kind of find the site a little difficult to look at. Specifically the dark homepage slider image. I would come up with a different color palette, maybe something that uses some blues, whites and orange...
- Or at least change the font color to one easier to read, purple on black has always seemed problematic to me. (I've been looking at Proxima Nova font a lot lately see: https://typekit.com/fonts/proxima-nova)
- The boxes that have "X days," throughout the entire site, are off center, which is strange to look at
- Also, when you look at a trip (for example the NYC one) you lose the footer for the site.
Do you plan on having user accounts? The site copy doesn't explain how those trips/places to see go from the user to the site. Having user accounts would seem to bring all sorts of benefits to both the company and user - being able to save/favorite certain locations, maybe even add reviews on popular spots...though my immediate worry would be nothing more than an specially organized yelp.
Since there only appears to be two test trips to see - does this create trips based off of location & travel time? Like, if I want to go to NYC for 4 days, is that the only level of input from the user? The site copy says "pick a plan that works for you" but there aren't any additional filter/input layers.
For example, if I want to go to NYC for 3 days. I want to be able to say: I want to go to NYC for 3 days, am staying at "X" and only want to walk (or input a travel radius...) and want to see "X, Y, Z" (perhaps restaurants, tourist attractions, museums, etc) <-- this is where building a user profile that has some personal "taste" options would also be an added benefit.
How are you integrating with Google Maps?
Anyway, I could go on for a long time about this as it's something I've been starting to piece together a plan for...let me know if you'd like to chat further or want me to be more specific with the few things I pointed out.
good luck