Product concept In progress

Plan less. Experience more.

A mobile travel concept that turns destination discovery and AI-assisted planning into one clear, continuous journey.

Explore the concept

Designed by Kai Zang

AI-generated Toronto itinerary displayed over a map
Travel discovery home screen featuring Banff National Park
Project overview
01 Snapshot

The idea

From “where should I go?” to a day you can follow.

Travel planning often lives across saved posts, maps, notes, and dozens of browser tabs. This concept explores a more coherent flow: find a place, shape an itinerary, and understand the route without leaving the app.

The interface is intentionally visual and quiet, giving the destination room to feel exciting while keeping the next action obvious.

Stage
Visual concept
Platform
iOS
Focus
AI itinerary planning
Status
In progress
02 Experience

One trip.
One continuous flow.

The concept is organized around three moments rather than a long list of disconnected features.

01

Discover

Browse places through large, editorial imagery and useful groupings instead of dense search results.

02 Core moment

Generate

Turn a destination and time budget into a structured itinerary that stays editable and easy to understand.

03

Follow

See stops, order, distance, and timing together so a generated plan becomes a route you can actually use.

03 Discovery

Start with inspiration

A homepage that feels like opening a window.

Full-bleed destination photography creates the emotional entry point. Regional collections and recommendations then make browsing feel structured without making it feel like work.

  • Editorial destination spotlight
  • Region-based collections
  • Quick save and search actions
EXPLORE / 01
Travel app discovery interface with destination collections
04 Itinerary

Make the plan tangible

AI suggestions grounded in place and time.

The generated itinerary pairs a mapped route with a numbered list of stops, estimates, and context. The goal is legibility: users should be able to judge and adjust a plan at a glance.

  • Ordered, map-connected stops
  • Distance and time estimates
  • Preview before committing
PLAN / 02
AI itinerary interface showing six Toronto stops and a route
05 Build plan

A product direction,
ready to become a system.

The screens are the current deliverable. The architecture below is the intended direction for implementation, not a claim of a live production app.

01

iOS client

SwiftUI Interface, state, and trip interactions
02

Application layer

FastAPI Trip logic, accounts, and service orchestration
03

Data & services

PostgreSQL Saved trips, places, maps, and external APIs
Planned toolkit
  • SwiftUI
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • MapKit
  • Stripe

Next: validate the core itinerary flow, define the data model, and connect the first end-to-end prototype.

Current status

The direction is visible.
The build comes next.

This page will evolve alongside the project—from concept screens to a working product and a full technical case study.

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