Process begin with global studies on user travel research and planning behavior across our key regions.
We then took a close look at all sites within the Yahoo! Travel parent umbrella in order to perform a detailed content audit. This process helped determine all content types we need to account for moving forward.
The global content audit forced the US team to take a look at all content types and full discuss differing business models with teams across the world.
After assessing the research, the content audit, and the differing business models, we moved into wireframing the new experience. Due to the vastly different monetization strategies.. it was clear we would need an approach that was modular and scalable to all properites.