Overview

Travelers want a way to plan, capture, and share memories in the moment, not just after a trip ends.

I helped bring Camping Tools’ web experience into a mobile experience, adapting existing workflows and adding new features to support travelers throughout their journey.

Problem

Users had no way to plan, share, or capture experiences as they happened, creating a gap between the journey itself and the memories they created.

Goal

Expand the existing web product into a mobile experience that supports the full travel journey, from planning and collaboration to capturing and sharing memories.

Design

Trip Centered Experience

• Create trips with key details like locations, dates, and descriptions

• Organize plans, memories, and activities within each trip

• Create a shared space for multiple travelers to contribute

Creating detailed memories along the way

• Attach memories to locations and itinerary stops

• Add context through tags, dates, and descriptions

• Control visibility across private, group, and community sharing

Collaboration with family and friends

• Build shared itineraries with stops and dates

• Create shared packing lists

• Allow travelers to contribute and update trip details

Creating a community of travelers

• Share memories with trip members

• Interact through likes and comments

• Publish selected moments to the broader community

• Join groups near you

Takeaways

What I Learned from Camping Tools

• Collaboration adds complexity - Designing shared trips introduced new challenges around ownership, contributions, and permissions. Creating clear rules for how users interact helped make collaboration feel natural.

• A strong foundation enables scalability - Centering the experience around trips created a flexible structure that allowed new features to fit naturally as the product continued to grow.