The Cloud One

Large images, little around them: the homepage gets by with one visual and the search. For that design to hold across every area of the platform, there is a design system underneath — I contributed to it, to the components, type scale, and tokens the interface is built from.

The Cloud One is the design brand of the Motel One Group: houses in central locations across European cities and in New York. The rooms are compact; the real centre of each house is the lounge, the bar, and often a rooftop terrace. Every house is built into an existing building and its surroundings — in Prague, for instance, right in the old town. Arrive, feel comfortable, switch off, is how the brand describes itself; the platform has to carry that across before a booking even begins. The module in the image is one of the places where that happens: it introduces the houses one by one.

The detail page of a single house, here Düsseldorf-Kö Bogen. The booker bar runs along the bottom: it keeps the current search — dates, guests, price — permanently visible and leads from anywhere on the page straight into room selection, without having to jump back to the search.

I contributed to the infrastructure — the automated deployments from commit to production, and the observability that makes operation traceable.