AVI Luxury Airlines: Case Study

Exclusivity, comfort, and seamless private jet booking.

Role

UI Designer

Timeline

Jun - Jul 2022

Platform

Web Desktop

Stack

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Visual Research
The Brief

The brief was to design a website for a luxury airlines brand. The website should communicate exclusivity and comfort through a seamless booking experience.

Approach

Since this was a standalone design task with no existing brand or user research, I started with a visual competitive analysis: looking at how other luxury airline brands use color, imagery, and layout to communicate premium quality. This informed most of my early decisions.

Design Decisions
1

Color Palette

Deep navy and gold. Blue reads as trustworthy and premium across aviation; paired with gold it leans into the luxury positioning without feeling overdone.

2

Airplane Window Motif

Rather than a generic hero banner, I used oval window-shaped frames to display imagery: giving the homepage a distinctive visual identity immediately tied to the flight experience.

3

High-Quality Imagery

Spacious cabins, gourmet dining, private suites: the visuals did most of the storytelling. For a luxury brand, showing beats telling.

4

Destinations Map

An interactive world map section communicates global reach at a glance, which is a key trust signal for this audience.

5

Contact & FAQ

Kept simple and clean: a contact form alongside an accordion FAQ, with additional quick-access links for travel requirements and special assistance.

Visuals & Experience

Walkthrough of the AVI home page and contact page interactions.

Outcome

This was the design task that got me selected for the internship at BETSOL: 3 out of 5 candidates were offered a role. It was also my first time designing a full UI from scratch, which makes it a useful marker of where I started before the research-heavy, user-centered work I've done since.

Reflections

Looking back, I made mostly instinct-driven decisions: the color choice, the window motif, the layout structure. I didn't have a research process, user flows, or wireframes at this stage. What I did have was a clear sense of the audience and what the brand needed to feel like, which I now know is the beginning of design thinking even without the formal framework around it.

If I were to redo this today, I'd start with a proper competitor audit, define the key user journeys (booking, exploring destinations, getting support), and test whether the window motif, while distinctive, actually aids or distracts from navigation.