Where Travel Generation is going

Hi, I'm Mat Weir, director and lead developer at Xebidy. I took over lead development of Travel Generation a few months ago and have brought travelgeneration.com through to its current incarnation.

Travel Generation is a site where you:

1. Collect and discover travel related information,
2. Organise that information into travel plans,
3. Share your plans, experiences and travel information with friends, family and other devices or software.

Keeping these three goals in mind, I'd like to talk about where we're going with Travel Generation.

Our focus on the design has been on the usability of the travel planning interface where we have made a number of improvements to make it easier to create and manage events and bookmarks.

You would have noticed the new home page and perhaps wondered what's going on. Every few hours we pick the most popular bookmark from the database and feature it on the home page. This gives you the ability to find out what's interesting and popular in travel right now.

Feedback so far has been that, whilst there is a bunch of fresh content there, it's not very categorised or relevant. For example, once a bookmark has featured it is no longer eligible to be on the home page. This works well for news bookmarks, but once a hostel has featured it won't appear again even though it may be all the rage. So, whilst we're building up a bunch of data (both bookmarks, travel stories and their popularity) the goal is to structure the home page into sections including latest travel stories (from the blog), latest popular news bookmarks, currently popular accommodation, destinations, events, transport and eating/drinking joints, plus a new category for popular travel plans from public travel plans that you create.

Happy travels and thanks for joining us with Travel Generation.

Comments

• dcar says:

  Good on you, Mat and Team! Congratulations! The new Travel Generation site looks great!

  2 years ago

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