Travel finance · UX/UI
Where money meets adventure.
A travel-first finance concept bringing trip planning, shared budgeting, expense tracking, and AI guidance into one connected experience.
The concept grew from a real frustration: planning, spending, and group coordination were scattered across too many tools.
Product concept
I led the full UX/UI process from research to high-fidelity design. The project is not live, but it became one of the most important projects in my learning because it helped me understand how UX can turn a messy, stressful experience into something more useful and intentional.
Project details
Self-initiated UX case study
UX/UI Designer · Researcher
End-to-end UX/UI design
Figma · Interviews · Testing
Travel finance interface
The dashboard and mobile concept bring travel planning, budgeting, and guidance into one connected direction.
Spending, at a glance
Recreated from the concept's own spending screen: the prototype's example budget and a category breakdown, so a traveler can see the shape of their spending without digging through a transaction list.
$2,401 of $3,200 spent
Problem
The problem
Travel planning is often fragmented across multiple tools. Budgeting, expense tracking, itinerary planning, and group coordination are usually handled separately, which creates unnecessary stress and confusion, especially for group trips.
Why it mattered
I was looking for a travel-first budgeting experience that felt simple, helpful, and actually designed for the way people plan trips. I did not see that clearly reflected in the products I reviewed.
From travel-industry research I reviewed during early discovery.
Research
Target users
Budget-conscious travelers, especially people planning trips with friends, partners, or groups who want more clarity around spending without turning travel into a finance-heavy experience.
Research approach
I conducted 4 interviews and usability sessions, and I also did competitor research to understand what existing budgeting and travel tools were missing. One of the clearest gaps was that users had to rely on multiple apps to do what should feel like one connected task.
I like the idea of having everything in one place instead of switching back and forth.
This feels easier than using multiple apps just to plan one trip.
Direction
Product opportunity
Through competitor research, I saw that users were often piecing together budgeting apps, notes apps, payment apps, and travel planners just to manage one trip. That fragmentation felt like the real problem.
Design decisions
Final solution
Impact
Reflection
TripTag pushed me to think like both a designer and a product person. I had to identify a real gap, understand what existing products were missing, and turn that into a more thoughtful concept.
If I continued this project, I would expand the research, test the flows more deeply, and refine how the AI suggestions and shared budgeting features work together.