Bronze Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design · 2025
Hocking Hills Web Design
- A' Design Award 2025 Bronze Winner in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design
- Awarded April 15, 2025
- CLIENT: Cansu Dagbagli Ferreira
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 33,190
- Verification code F7BAAF4230 · Verify this award
About Hocking Hills Web Design
The redesign of Hockinghills.com introduces a streamlined and contemporary booking platform for nature stays and outdoor activities. Prioritizing clarity and usability, the updated design features a minimalist approach that highlights the natural beauty of Hocking Hills. A refined user interface, optimized navigation, and a set of over 100 custom icons enhance accessibility and functionality. The result is a cohesive and engaging digital experience that simplifies trip planning while staying true to the brands dedication to nature, community, and seamless exploration.
Cansu Dagbagli Ferreira's Hocking Hills Web Design engages contemporary digital design discourse through a responsive interface system that demonstrates sophisticated integration of naturalistic photography with functional user experience architecture, situating itself within the broader evolution of hospitality and vacation rental platform design where visual appeal must harmonize with transactional efficiency and multi-device accessibility. The work achieves notable compositional balance through its dual-device presentation format, a convention that has emerged within the past decade as responsive design methodology has become essential to digital practice, here executed with particular attention to maintaining visual identity coherence across dramatically different viewport dimensions while preserving essential interactive pathways and information hierarchy. The chromatic strategy exhibits considerable sophistication, deploying a muted organic palette of sage greens, warm earth browns, and cool neutral grays that establishes immediate thematic resonance with the outdoor recreation and natural environment context suggested by the cascading waterfall hero imagery, the color relationships demonstrate an understanding of both aesthetic harmony and functional communication with the sage green accent functioning simultaneously as brand identifier and call-to-action emphasis creating clear visual pathways through the interface architecture. The technical execution reveals accomplished handling of contemporary web design conventions including card-based information organization, icon-driven category communication, modal overlay systems for focused task completion, and progressive disclosure principles that manage complexity without overwhelming users, the layering strategy particularly merits attention as the translucent modal overlay maintains contextual awareness through the visible background photography while establishing sufficient contrast for functional legibility, a delicate balance requiring careful attention to opacity values, shadow treatments, and typographic weight selection. The integration of naturalistic photography serves multiple functions within the composition, establishing immediate emotional connection and atmospheric immersion while communicating the experiential promise of the platform's offerings, the waterfall imagery with its soft-focus background treatment and sharp foreground detail demonstrates photographic skill in creating depth and visual interest while maintaining suitability as interface backdrop, the cool cyan-tinted water passages contrasted against warm amber-lit stone and deep forest greens suggest careful selection or color grading to achieve chromatic harmony with the interface overlay elements. The information architecture reveals user-centered design thinking with logical grouping of related functions, intuitive icon-based communication supplemented by clear text labels, generous whitespace providing visual breathing room and reducing cognitive load, and careful attention to touch target sizing and spacing suggesting consideration for mobile interaction patterns, the property type and amenity selection systems employ clean geometric organization with consistent styling creating learnable patterns that facilitate rapid comprehension and efficient task completion. The work participates in broader conversations within digital design practice regarding the balance between aesthetic differentiation and convention adherence, here achieving distinctiveness through chromatic choices and photographic integration while respecting established usability patterns that users have come to expect from booking and reservation interfaces, this negotiation between innovation and familiarity represents a recurring challenge in commercial digital design where creative expression must serve business objectives and user task completion rather than existing as aesthetic gesture alone. The responsive adaptation from desktop to mobile format demonstrates technical facility in translating complex functionality across radically different spatial constraints while maintaining brand coherence and user experience quality, the mobile implementation visible in the secondary device shows thoughtful consideration of vertical scrolling patterns, thumb-friendly interaction zones, and prioritization decisions about content and feature prominence within limited viewport real estate. One might observe how the work invites contemplation of the evolving relationship between digital interfaces and the physical experiences they mediate, the waterfall imagery functioning as both aesthetic element and symbolic promise of the natural environments users might access through successful platform engagement, suggesting how contemporary digital design increasingly serves as threshold space between online transaction and offline experience, and how visual design choices shape user expectations, emotional responses, and ultimately behavioral outcomes within these liminal digital-physical spaces.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The redesign of Hockinghills.com modernizes the booking platform for nature stays and outdoor activities in Hocking Hills State Park. The project involved a complete brand refresh, UX and UI enhancements, and the creation of over 100 custom icons. The updated design improves navigation, refines the user experience, and ensures visual consistency across the platform while maintaining the brands deep connection to the local community and natural environment.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Desktop and mobile screens were designed for the whole website in a responsive manner.
- Tags
- website, travel, outdoors, icon design, user interface
- Production Technology
- The design thinking method of Diverge and Converge was used. All design was realized digitally as vector based assets with Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
- Design Challenge
- Even though an extensive design system was created, the project requirements evolved according to the project needs and as a result of that, keeping the consistency was a challenge.
- Project Duration
- 1 year from June 2023 to June 2024
USA and France - Operation Flow
- Hockinghills website is used for researching and booking accommodations, activites in Hocking Hills national park.
- Research
- According to the real user data from the existing website, user problems and needs are analysed and UX improvements are done accordingly.
- Inspiration
- The redesign is inspired by the need for clarity and ease of use, allowing the natural beauty of Hocking Hills to take center stage. The minimal and modern design approach removes visual clutter, creating a seamless and intuitive experience. A refined icon set enhances usability without distraction, while the structured layout and clean typography ensure effortless navigation. The result is a functional yet elegant platform that connects users to nature with simplicity and efficiency.
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