Irish holiday homes, rebuilt for a phone.
Trident lets self-catering holiday homes the length of Ireland. We rebuilt the site after reading Trident’s own analytics.
At a glance Trident Holiday Homes 2024
In short
The brief
More than 1,000 holiday homes, one phone screen.
Cottages, lodges and apartments from Donegal to Wexford. Trident also lists on the big platforms, and its own site is where a guest books direct.
Loco Digital designed and rebuilt the Trident Holiday Homes website in 2024, delivered through our partner Altitude: a website redesign in Dublin, from UX research and design to the WordPress build.
Explore
A map, because a list can’t show a coastline.
Explore pairs a live map with filters and a list, so geography and criteria are two ways into the same search.
01
Start from the place
A live map, because half of choosing an Irish holiday home is choosing where in Ireland to be, and no amount of sorting solves that.
02
Or start from the criteria
Filters apply without leaving the map. The results narrow in place.
03
Cross between the two
A selection made on the map is carried into the list and back, so a guest can switch how they are searching without losing where they had got to.
Booking
From a photo to a held date, without leaving the page.
The reserve component lives on the property page rather than behind it: dates and guests are set in place, the price responds, and the guest only commits to a separate flow once they have already decided. On mobile it collapses to a fixed bar.
The result
The same product, drawn twice.
Where, when, how many. Everything else on the site is downstream of those three answers. Open any frame to see it full size.
Prices in the booking screens are blurred.
Under the hood
States drawn before a line was built.
A booking interface is mostly the moments between screens: half-filled forms, empty results, a filter that excludes everything. Those are the states that get invented during development when nobody drew them.
Engineered
A component library covering desktop, tablet and mobile from one vocabulary.
A custom WordPress theme on Elementor, so the client’s team owns the content without owning the layout.
Availability search on Trident’s existing reservation system, with date range, occupancy and sorting.
A persistent bottom bar on mobile (Home, Explore, Offers, Saved), inside thumb reach.
Designed
States were drawn for the search tool, the reserve component, the map and the navigation.
Stack
See it live
Go and find somewhere to stay.
Try the search on a phone. That is the screen it was designed for.
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