Mobile App UI for Appointment Booking
🔍 About the Task
Many local businesses such as salons, cafes, clinics, fitness trainers, and consultants still manage appointments using:
- phone calls
- WhatsApp messages
- handwritten registers
This leads to:
- missed bookings
- scheduling confusion
- poor customer experience
- lost revenue
To solve this, modern businesses adopt mobile appointment booking apps that allow customers to book services easily and businesses to manage time efficiently.
In this task, you will design a real mobile app UI for an appointment booking system, similar to what agencies and product teams build for real clients.
This is a highly job-relevant UI/UX project, commonly used in:
- mobile app development agencies
- SaaS startups
- local business digitization projects
🎯 Objective
Your goal is to design a mobile-first appointment booking experience that:
- is simple for first-time users
- minimizes booking friction
- works smoothly on small screens
- feels professional and trustworthy
You are designing something that real businesses can actually use, not a dummy project.
🏪 Real-World Scenario (Mandatory)
To keep this task 100% practical, you must choose a real nearby business, such as:
- a local café ☕
- a salon 💇
- a dental clinic 🦷
- a fitness trainer or yoga studio 🧘
- a consultation-based service
You will design the app as if this business is your real client.
Example:
“Appointment booking app for XYZ Salon, Bangalore”
This approach makes your portfolio real, credible, and sellable.
✅ What You’ll Do
As part of this task, you will:
- Identify the business type and target users
- Understand how customers book appointments today
- Map the booking journey from start to confirmation
- Design a clean, intuitive mobile UI
- Apply UX principles used in production apps
- Prepare the design in a client-presentable format
🛠️ Design Tools You’ll Use
You may use any one of the following tools (tool rotation is encouraged):
Core Design Tools
- Figma – https://www.figma.com
- Adobe XD – https://www.adobe.com/products/xd.html
- Sketch – https://www.sketch.com
Focus on mobile-first design and interaction clarity.
✨ Key Screens & Features to Design
Your app design should include:
✔ Onboarding or login screen
✔ Service / category selection
✔ Staff or specialist selection (optional)
✔ Date & time slot booking interface
✔ Appointment confirmation screen
✔ Clear navigation and back flow
✔ Touch-friendly and accessible design
Optional bonus:
- Appointment rescheduling
- Booking history
- Notifications preview
📁 Inspiration & Reference Apps (Study Only)
You may explore these real-world apps/websites for UX understanding
(do not copy designs):
- Booksy – https://booksy.com
- Fresha – https://www.fresha.com
- Practo – https://www.practo.com
- Urban Company – https://www.urbancompany.com
📤 Final Deliverable
You must submit:
- A complete mobile app UI design, including:
- onboarding / login
- booking flow
- confirmation screen
- A short design rationale explaining:
- target users
- booking flow logic
- UX decisions
- how this design improves user experience
All work must be documented and shared in a public GitHub repository.
Your output should feel like something you could confidently show to:
- a client
- an agency
- a startup product team
💰 Learn & Earn (Highly Recommended)
Once your design is complete:
- Visit the actual business you designed for
- Show them:
- your mobile app UI
- how it improves booking experience
- Offer:
- UI design handover
- or website/app development through your network
Many interns have successfully:
- earned their first freelance payment
- gained real client confidence
- converted this task into paid work
This is how real designers start earning.
🌟 Showcase Your Work
After completion:
- Share your design on LinkedIn
- Explain:
- which business you designed for
- what problem you solved
- how your app helps users and owners
- Tag Future Interns