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( By / Day One Technologies / 2019 / 2 min read )

Purple City

Not general intercity bus ticketing.

Pitch, not delivered

Generated schematic standing in for imagery of Purple City. It depicts nothing.
Generated schematic, not a screenshot of Purple City.

Generated schematic, not a screenshot. Real imagery to follow.

( The pitch )

The proposition

Not general intercity bus ticketing. Purple City is positioned tightly as "Daily AC Commute to Office", a subscription-style commuter service on fixed routes with air-conditioned coaches. That focus shapes the whole product: the user is not exploring destinations, they are catching the same bus to work, so the design optimises for picking a start and end stop quickly and seeing when the next bus arrives.

Design direction

A confident purple brand with orange as the action colour. Splash screens use isometric night-scene illustrations of a city bus, giving the service a premium feel that separates it from ordinary public transport. Maps are central rather than decorative, with route information layered over them.

Direction 1 is map-first: a live map showing bus positions and nearby stops with an origin and destination pair pinned at the top, then a ticket card sliding up over it. Direction 2 is funnel-first, walking through search, stop selection, route confirmation, and booking as discrete steps.

What was designed

  • Branded splash carrying the daily-commute positioning line
  • Stop-to-stop selection with a scrollable stop list showing each stop's departure time, and a map showing the live bus position with proximity context such as next bus in ten minutes, two kilometres away
  • Service availability shown as seat count and coach type per departure
  • Route preview drawn on the map with distance, stop count, and fare
  • Ticket card with ticket type, start and drop locations, date and time, and a Book Now action
  • Search buses by date and time, with a destination entry
  • Trips and Bookings split into Past and Upcoming, each entry showing the route pair, date, PNR reference, and fare

What it demonstrates

Transit and ticketing UX where the map is a working surface rather than an illustration, plus the discipline of designing for a narrow, repeated use case (the same commute every day) instead of a generic booking flow. Two full directions show the pitch pattern of giving the client real alternatives.

The full record
Timeline
2019
Platform
Mobile (iOS)
Category
Urban mobility, commuter transit, ticketing
Status
Pitch, not delivered