2025
Entrant Company
Category
Client's Name
Country / Region
Luxury travel, delivered with digital clarity and intuitive ease.
Creativity / Concept / Idea:
Explora Journeys sought to transform the way luxury travellers engage with ocean cruising. The user experience was designed to evoke not only the promise of destinations, but the serenity and refinement of the brand’s unique "Ocean State of Mind." This is not a transactional travel site; it’s an immersive, emotionally engaging journey that mirrors the calm precision and highly curated nature of luxury resort travel.
Content / Brief / Objective / Planning / Execution:
The brief challenged the team to craft a travel UX that speaks directly to affluent, experience-driven travellers — guests who expect intuitive digital interactions that match the ease and confidence of their real-world luxury experiences. Strategic planning involved deep persona work, journey mapping, and iterative user testing to ensure that guests and travel advisors alike could move effortlessly through complex information: from voyage options to suite selection, destinations, and experiences ashore.
Visual / Design:
The design reflects high-end resort aesthetics: full-screen cinematic video, immersive destination storytelling, calming colour palettes, and spacious, considered typography. The interface invites slow exploration, mirroring the unhurried nature of luxury travel. Subtle transitions and scroll-activated animations gently guide users through rich narrative content without overwhelming them.
Innovation / Functionality / Effectiveness:
What sets this UX apart is the seamless blend of inspiration and practicality. Complex tools —itineraries, deck plans, suite comparisons, regionalised pricing and a travel advisor portal—are intuitively embedded, always secondary to the emotional experience of discovery. Guests can easily explore, personalise and book complex travel products without cognitive overload, while always remaining immersed in the brand’s luxury world.
Impact / Memorability:
The result is a travel experience that begins long before embarkation. Engagement metrics show high dwell times, excellent conversion rates, and strong repeat visits. The UX delivers confidence, emotional connection, and a distinctive brand memory — redefining what luxury travel experiences should feel like online.
Credits
Entrant Company
光異文創事業有限公司
Category
Interior Design - Showroom / Exhibit
Entrant Company
Shih Chien University
Category
Product Design - Outdoor & Exercise Equipment