Nomad Travel App
An offline-first travel companion, taken from product design through a shipped React Native build.
Role
Product Designer & Mobile Engineer
Type
Mobile App
Client
Nomad Labs
Year
2024
Nomad is a travel companion for people who spend more time off-grid than on it. The core promise: everything you saved works with no signal.
I led product design and built the React Native client, keeping the experience fast and legible on cheap devices in bad light.
Fig. 01 — Selected Interface
Travel
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Challenge
Offline-first sync is deceptively hard: edits made on two devices with no connection have to reconcile without losing data.
We built a last-write-wins layer with a visible history, so nothing ever silently disappeared.
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Process
We started with the offline moment — a traveler on a mountain pass — and worked backward to sync, storage, and conflict resolution.
Prototypes were tested on real trips, and the interface was tuned for one-handed use with gloves on.
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Result
Nomad shipped to both stores with a 4.8 rating and became the reference app for its category in the first year.
Ninety-four percent of sessions used at least one feature fully offline.
