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Chalo A Trip You Can Describe

Mobile App · Concept

A travel app where the planning happens in a conversation. You describe the trip you want (where, roughly when, who with) and what comes back is an itinerary you can book from without leaving the chat.

A design rather than a build: these are the screens as drawn, not captures of a running app.

The mark is a folded map inside a speech bubble, which is the product in one shape: the map answers, but you get at it by asking.

The Chalo splash screen: a white map-in-a-speech-bubble mark on blue
Splash.

The app

Home is three ways of looking at the same place: things to do, places to go, and how to get there.

Chalo home on the Activities tab: search, three category tabs, a Manali banner and a Nearby row
Home, on Activities.

Under that it is rows you keep scrolling, over four tabs that never move.

The Nearby and Most People Tried rows, with the Explore, Saved, Trips and Profile tab bar
Nearby, and the tab bar.

Destinations leads with a picture and Travel leads with a form, because they are not the same question.

The Destinations tab with a Taj Mahal hero, beside the Travel tab showing a bus search
Destinations, and Travel.

Open one of them and it is a page: what the place is, then the guides, stays and restaurants attached to it.

A destination sheet for Jal Mahal with Overview, Guides, Stays and Restaurants tabs over a full-width photograph
A destination, opened.

The advisor

It has its own mark and sits a tap from the search bar, so asking is never further away than searching.

The Ask Advisor mark on blue, beside the home header where the Ask Advisor pill sits next to the search field
Ask Advisor.

You describe the trip in a sentence (where, roughly when, who with) and it comes back with the follow-ups a good travel agent would ask before promising anything.

The Chalo Advisor chat answering a request for four days in Delhi, and the empty chat with sponsored trip cards
The advisor, asked about Delhi.

Chat and Explore are the same advisor in two moods: one talks, one shows.

The advisor header with the Chat and Explore toggle above two sponsored trip cards
Chat, and Explore.

A reply carries things you can keep, and the questions you were going to ask next anyway.

A You might like carousel and You might want to ask suggestion chips under a chat reply
Under a reply.

Explore is the same knowledge laid out to browse (attractions, stays, restaurants) rather than asked for.

The Explore tab with category chips and rated result cards for stays and restaurants
Explore.

Every card can be liked or dropped into a trip without opening it.

Attraction cards for Humayun’s Tomb and the Lotus Temple, each with a heart and a plus
Heart, and plus.

Getting there is a bus, a flight, a car or a train, and the results say which of them are paid placements.

Activity category chips beside the travel search with bus results, prices and sponsored labels
Activities, and the search.

Booking, without leaving the conversation

Best or cheapest, then the total, then pay. The itinerary is a card in the chat rather than a handoff to somewhere else.

Flight itineraries inside the chat with Best and Cheapest options, and the payment sheet showing the total
Flights, and the sheet.

The card carries the cancellation terms, the price per person and the button, so nothing has to be looked up somewhere else.

The flight itinerary card enlarged beside the chat, showing both legs, free cancellation, the price and the Book button
The itinerary card.

What you keep

Saved is a shelf and Trips is a calendar: what you liked and what you actually committed to are kept apart.

Saved restaurants, places and stays, beside the Trips screen with an upcoming booked trip
Saved, and Trips.

A booked trip is one card: the picture, the rating, where it is and the dates it covers.

The Trips screen beside an enlarged upcoming trip card showing a rated Delhi tour and its dates
A trip, up close.

Insurance, emergency help and food sit at the top of the profile: the things you want when the trip is already happening, not while you are planning it.

The profile screen with insurance, emergency help and food order shortcuts above account settings
Profile.

The permission ask says what it is for, and can be closed.

A notifications permission sheet explaining that suggestions are based on current location
Notifications.

The other side

There is a second app, in green, for the people supplying all of this. Activities and destinations each get their own way in.

The Chalo Partners splash in green, with the Activity Partner and Destination Partner variants
Chalo Partners.