House of Travel Holdings
House of Travel Holdings
House of Travel Holdings
Bringing Design Thinking to House of Travel
Bringing Design Thinking to House of Travel
Bringing Design Thinking to House of Travel
Because Design was a relatively new concept to the business, as the sole Designer, I was in a unique position to work with teams & stakeholders in an established business to raise awareness of my skillset & develop strong best practices for utilising Design in the development pipeline.




Design System Development & Maintenance
Design System Development & Maintenance
Design System Development & Maintenance
Creating Design Systems was a dream I got to fulfil in spades as the sole UX designer at House of Travel. I constructed three Design Systems which contained assets intended to streamline design work, improve handover and maximise consistency with brand guidelines.
Creating Design Systems was a dream I got to fulfil in spades as the sole UX designer at House of Travel. I constructed three Design Systems which contained assets intended to streamline design work, improve handover and maximise consistency with brand guidelines.





Tripbuilder Checkout API
Nezasa’s TripBuilder is a tool that lets travel consultants create and manage customised, multi-stop travel itineraries (like flights, hotels, and activities) all in one place. One of my major projects at House Of Travel (HOT) was creating a UI for consultants to "check out" & confirm booking items they'd placed in their Tripbuilder cart.


The Requirements
The current system required the user (consultants) to manually fill out several required fields of customer information. We already had access to this information in our mid-office booking management system, so the idea was to leverage this information so the user only had to identify the correct profile, and the system would auto-populate the required fields from that. Because the customer may not have a profile set up already, we also needed the ability to manually create one, as well as to just save the information as a quote (which required a much simpler process that could then be confirmed as a full booking at a later date).
The passenger information step would hand over to an activities confirmation step, where the user would add any additional information requested by the providers. Finally, a confirmation step was required where the consultant acknowledged terms and conditions of the bookings. When the user confirmed the bookings, the system would sync the new data with the mid-office system, and send documentation to the customer in the form of an itinerary.
I started by creating a clickable prototype wireframe of the flow. After iterative feedback and adjustments, this gave way to a high-fidelity design, which were also created as a prototype to showcase to stakeholders and users.
Intended impact
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Allowed consultants to utilize their current systems without adding complexity or extra areas to maintain data.
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Brought several separate systems together under one process with a unified look and feel, reducing time-to-completion and increasing ease of use.
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The feedback from stakeholders and test users was overwhelmingly positive, with the majority of test users able to complete the process first time without getting lost or stuck. The feature was successfully released and is now live.
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This was to be the first step in creating a larger consolidated booking management tool, so it needed to be both simple and scalable as we added new features in future.
Tripbuilder Checkout API
Tripbuilder Checkout API
Nezasa’s TripBuilder is a tool that lets travel consultants create multi-stop travel itineraries (like flights, hotels, and activities) all in one place. One of my major projects at House Of Travel (HOT) was creating a UI for consultants to "check out" & confirm booking items they'd placed in their Tripbuilder cart.


The work displayed on this site was created by me while working for the mentioned employer, and is displayed with their permission. Any and all designs, artwork and logos displayed are copyrighted and the IP is wholly owned by the respective company.
© 2026 Ellie Earle
The work displayed on this site was created by me while working for the mentioned employer, and is displayed with their permission. Any and all designs, artwork and logos displayed are copyrighted and the IP is wholly owned by the respective company.
© 2026 Ellie Earle
The work displayed on this site was created by me while working for the mentioned employer, and is displayed with their permission. Any and all designs, artwork and logos displayed are copyrighted and the IP is wholly owned by the respective company.
© 2026 Ellie Earle