Simplified Travel Agency Content Management System with Drupal

Decoupled Drupal as the Backend

Decoupled Drupal Implementation for a Bahrain based Travel Company the best application for all GCC travel agencies offers and packages in one place where the traveler could navigate amongst all kinds of packages without getting interrupted by any other subject/posts in other social media platforms. Also, you could filter amongst the packages in the app by almost anything such as destination, price, dates …etc.

Highlights

UI/UX: Designed for a mobile app and a one-page website.

Decoupled Drupal CMS: Implemented headless drupal where drupal serves as a Backend to the mobile app and expose data with Rest APIs.

React Native: Adopted React Native for cross-platform mobile app development.

Development Methodology: Followed Kanban Process that carried web development in a continuous delivery model.

Multilingual Internationalization: Supports Dual Languages (English and Arabic) for Mobile App.

AWS Cloud: Used various AWS Services with Auto Scaling and RDS Multi-AZ Deployments in the Middle East region.

The PWD Evaluation

First of all, PWD scheduled a couple of sessions with client to thoroughly understand the concept and expectations of their dream project. We did brainstorming and raised as many questions as we could to confirm our understanding and vision. We leveraged an iterative method to get feedback early and designed user-flow diagrams, sketches and wireframes before moving to high-fidelity design and prototypes.

The PWD team wanted to test the hypotheses, and then quickly develop a prototype of the product, find out what potential customers can think of, so we chose the methodology of design sprints. The PWD Team then started creating the storyboard, on the basis of which prototype will be created and tested with end-users. We then designed an interactive prototype that involves the full path of the product and user interaction and shown-up to the client to get their approval. Based on the feedback we designed a fully functional interactive prototype in order to move forward to the development phase.

The PWD Approach

Analysis: We allocated our top Business Analysts to analyze the client’s requirements. In the beginning, the software development team has analyzed the concept of hypothetically. Afterward, we closely inspected the entire process and defined user stories.

Project Planning: Based on our findings, we created flow diagrams for the entire workflow and plan the project development process by defining technical implementations.

Project Architecture: Web architectures at PWD System defined the entire back-end application architecture for database synchronization, and the Mobile App architecture with navigation, modules, and data interactions.

Wireframe & Prototypes: After several attempts and meetings with the client-side team, our Mobile App designers have prepared wireframes and prototypes citing all possible workflow diagrams, navigation, and data flows.

Results

Milestones & Deliverables: We decided on milestones and deliverables with the consent of the client and delivered the entire solution in the continuous delivery model within the predefined timeline.

Achievements: The client has successfully launched the Take Off Mobile App and getting hundreds of customers registered every day.

Satisfaction: The client has been very impressed by PWD System’s service, approach, support and quality of delivery within the time & budget.