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TINT

India's first end-to-end travel operating system - plan, book and live a trip from one connected place.

Role
Lead Product Designer
Timeline
8 Weeks
Team
2 Designers • 1 Product Manager • 1 Tech Lead
Platform
Mobile
Industry
Travel Technology

7 min read

Tint travel operating system - trip planning, bookings and live travel companion in one connected mobile experience.

The brief

Travel today is fragmented across ChatGPT, Google, hotels, flights, experiences, Instagram, referrals and spreadsheets. Tint was created to bring every step of travel into one connected experience - a mobile operating system that lets travellers create a personalized itinerary in under two minutes, book everything instantly, discover curated local experiences, connect with verified guides and track every expense in one place.

3–4 days

Planning reduced to under 2 minutes

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Connected travel ecosystem

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Core travel modules unified

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Situation

Planning a trip in India is surprisingly difficult.

A traveller typically spends days researching destinations, comparing hotels, checking transport, watching YouTube videos, reading blogs and saving Instagram posts before finally making bookings across multiple apps.

Even after investing hours into planning, everything remains disconnected. Flights don't align with the itinerary. Hotels are selected without considering daily activities. Local experiences are often discovered too late. Guides know nothing about the traveller's interests. Budgets become impossible to track across multiple bookings.

The result is a fragmented travel experience where travellers spend more time managing logistics than creating memories. Millions of incredible local stories remain undiscovered simply because travellers don't know they exist.

Fragmented travel planning across multiple apps and tools
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Task

Build India's first platform that helps travellers plan, book and execute an entire trip from a single place.

The experience needed to allow users to create a personalized itinerary in under two minutes, book transport, hotels and experiences instantly, discover curated local experiences instead of generic tourist attractions, connect with verified local guides and track every booking and travel expense in one place.

The vision wasn't to build another OTA. It was to build the operating system for travel.

  • Plan before booking
  • Reduce decision fatigue
  • Intent-driven personalization
  • One connected travel ecosystem
  • Travel like a local, not a tourist
Product vision - one connected travel operating system
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Action

Instead of beginning with bookings, we started with intent.

Tint first understands the traveller before recommending anything. Users define destination, dates, group size, budget, travel vibe, preferred transport and food preferences. Rather than searching through thousands of options, travellers simply describe the experience they want.

Within minutes, AI creates a complete itinerary that combines flights, hotels, local transport, experiences, hidden gems, curated recommendations and day-wise schedules. Everything is intelligently connected instead of existing as separate bookings.

Every recommendation inside the itinerary is immediately bookable. Users no longer have to jump between platforms to complete their journey. Once the trip begins, Tint becomes a travel companion - access every booking, track expenses, follow the itinerary and connect with local guides from a single dashboard.

Key features - trip planning, booking and travel companion in one flow
Trip preferences - destination, dates, travellers and budget
Choose your energy - travel vibes selection
Mode of transit and food preferences
AI-generated day-wise itinerary and shared trip plan
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Result

Tint transformed one of the most frustrating parts of travelling into a seamless experience.

Instead of spending 3–4 days planning a vacation across multiple platforms, travellers could generate a complete, personalized itinerary in under two minutes.

Planning, booking and trip execution were unified into one connected experience. Itineraries were built from travel intent rather than generic recommendations, destinations were explored through curated local experiences rather than traditional tourist routes, and bookings, itinerary management and expense tracking all lived inside a single platform.

  • Reduced travel planning time from 3–4 days to under 2 minutes
  • Unified planning, booking and trip execution
  • Personalized itineraries based on travel intent
  • Curated local experiences over generic tourist routes
  • Centralized bookings, itinerary and expense tracking
People don't want another booking platform. They want something that understands why they're travelling and takes care of everything else.
Tint itinerary in hand - live travel companion

Redesign the entire journey, not just individual tasks.

Travel isn't broken because there are too few options. It's broken because every option exists in isolation.

Tint taught me that the best product experiences don't optimize individual tasks. They redesign the entire journey.