Software · Design
e-Hotels
A booking experience for boutique stays across North America.
- Year
- 2024
- Role
- Designer & Developer
- Context
- Personal project
- Stack
- Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Figma
The brief
Most hotel booking flows still feel like airline forms: dense, anxious, accidentally hostile. e-Hotels is a small experiment in what a booking surface could feel like if it were treated as a calm, almost spa-like product. The neumorphic shell, soft sage palette, and tactile controls do the heavy lifting.
Auth without friction
Login and sign-up are split into focused pages with the same neumorphic vocabulary. Soft pill inputs, a single primary action, and gentle background blobs that move the eye toward the form.
Search results, but breathing
Result cards include just enough information (image, location, rating, capacity, amenities, and price) set inside generous whitespace. Filters are docked to the side behind a single soft container.
Reflections
The hardest part wasn't the visual style; it was deciding what to leave out. Every booking site wants to add a banner. The win here was holding the line on quiet.