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Case Study

Nur

Designing a premium travel experience for modern explorers.

Industry
Luxury Travel
Year
2026
Nur cover — a leopard facing the camera in a soft grey studio, wearing a green and white branded sports headband.
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§ 01
Overview

Nur is a curated travel platform designed around premium experiences, helping travellers discover destinations with confidence and elegance.

The project explores how thoughtful design can make travel planning feel calm, aspirational and effortless.

Industry
Luxury Travel
Timeline
2026 · Concept exploration
Services
Brand Identity, Product Design, Design System
Platform
Figma
Role
Self-initiated brand & product concept
§ 02
Challenge

Creating a digital travel experience that feels luxurious without becoming visually overwhelming.

§ 03
Research

What we went looking for

Looking at how travellers actually plan, we found the aspirational stage and the decision stage pulling design in opposite directions. Discovery wants photography, atmosphere and room to wander; booking wants dates, prices and certainty. Most platforms pick one and let the other suffer — usually by layering booking urgency over what should be a considered choice.

Luxury in a travel product isn't more imagery. It's never making someone feel lost.

1904-WRK-005 · Nur
§ 05
Wireframes

Structure before surface

Nur separates the two modes rather than blending them. Discovery is given full-bleed space and almost no interface; planning is given structure, hierarchy and a persistent sense of what has already been decided. The identity holds both together, so moving between them never feels like moving between products.

§ 06
Identity

Calm enough to hold photography

The identity's job is to frame places, not compete with them. Quiet typography and a restrained palette let full-bleed imagery carry the aspiration, then hold steady when the same system has to present dates and prices.

§ 07
Brand Construction

A mark that sits over imagery

Most of the time the mark appears on top of a photograph. It is set out on simple geometry with generous clear space, and specified to hold its weight over a busy image without needing a plate behind it.

The Nur wordmark in black — NUR set in a squared geometric sans, the N joined by a curved sweep and the R carrying a raised crossbar, with a small circled C following it.
FIG. A — Lock-upLogo and wordmark · clear space
The Nur monogram in black — the wordmark's N standing alone, two upright stems joined by a curved sweep, with a short flag at the top left.
FIG. B — IconSetting out
The Nur N monogram in primary gold, on a dark ground.
Primary gold#CEA65C
The Nur N monogram in black.
Monochrome black#060606
The Nur N monogram knocked out in white, on a dark ground.
Monochrome white#F5F5F5
FIG. C — VariantsColourways
§ 08
Design System

Documented like a manual

A scalable set of destination, itinerary and booking components built to hold long-form editorial content and structured travel data in the same system.

§ 09
Product Design

Screen by screen

The concept opens on a single destination at a time rather than a grid, letting each place hold attention before the next. Itinerary building runs alongside discovery as a persistent, collapsible rail, so the plan accumulates without ever interrupting the browsing.

§ 10
Signature Experience

The rail that never interrupts

Planning usually arrives as a modal that stops the browsing. Here it runs alongside as a persistent, collapsible rail, so a plan accumulates without ever breaking the wandering. The whole concept rests on that one decision.

§ 11
Engineering

Built to hold up

Delivered as an interactive prototype with a documented token set — type scale, spacing rhythm and image treatment rules — structured so a front-end team could implement the system without reinterpreting it.

§ 12
Ecosystem

Aspiration and logistics, one system

Discovery gets space and atmosphere; planning gets structure and hierarchy. Once both shared one set of components, the tonal shift between them stopped being a design problem and became a layout decision.

§ 13
Reflection

What we'd carry forward

The design system was the real output. Once discovery and planning shared one set of components, the tonal shift between aspiration and logistics stopped being a design problem and became a layout decision.