
Travel and live like a local
World’s #1 Home Exchange platform.
Industry
Travel
Location
United States
Overview
HomeExchange is a global leading platform for home swapping. It’s a vacation alternative where you stay at someone's home while they stay at yours, but not always simultaneously. With more than 65,000 home listings in 150 countries, HomeExchange is the industry leader for the past 15 years.
This L.A. based company partnered up with Q to build a dedicated development and design team to develop and support the growth of their business.
What we did
- Web Platform
- UX & UI Design
- Quality Assurance
Tech stack
- PHP
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
Process
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Workshop
The process started with the extensive on-site workshop in which we discovered the client’s major pain points and goals - remaining the leading exchange platform that is following world trends and adapting the UX for their user base of people older than 45.
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Discovery Phase
We gathered all the useful information about the processes in HomeExchange, pinpointed the user journey from all angles and did a research of their user base.
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UX & Prototyping
We created clickable wireframes using InVision and presented our solution to the board of directors.
3 -
Setting up an Agile Team
After the approval of the initial wireframes, Q built a team of 7 front-end and back-end developers who will develop the platform.
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Development
Development lasted for 9 months and included integrations with CRM, ERP, and more than 50 other payment solutions. Now, the platform is being used at every corner of the world.
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Support and Ongoing Development
After the release of the final version of the platform, the dedicated team continued developing new features and upgrading the existing ones.
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Exit
HomeExchange did a successful exit in 2017 and was sold for $34 mil.
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Challenges
Conclusion
We were involved in the project inception and were in charge of the discovery, planning, architecture, UX & UI design, and implementation of the solution.
The final result was a platform that helped HomeExchange stay sector leader and have a successful exit worth $34 mil.
The team which developed the platform is still supporting HomeExchange in their growth and new business goals.
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