Southwest Airlines

Role

UX Designer

Time period

2010

Southwest GetAway Finder and Flight Finder were the two products we shipped while I was working at Vast.

Traditionally, travel search engines require you to enter a destination. While most people know where they want to go, sometimes they just want to go somewhere. Southwest Getaway Finder enables destination-less travel search.

GetAway Finder helps you find travel packages (flight + hotel) within your budget. At first, it made sense to design an experience where steps are boldly mentioned because the whole experience had five steps.

Southwest Airlines Getaway Finder

Click on the right of the screen to go to the next step. Left side goes to the previous step.

Meanwhile we were working on a similar product but only for flights. After removing a lot of features GetAway Finder's interface and simplifying the experience we came up with Flight Finder.

Southwest Airlines Flight Finder

Southwest Airlines Flight Finder