Jesse Storms

Lead Designer

Booket

Booking shouldn't be difficult.

  • Booket

    Booking shouldn't be difficult.

What's Booket?

Booket is the first project by NetwerkADF. It offers a system where users can easily reserve any room without hassle. Any reservation can be owned by a certain group, meaning that the customer is in charge on how they devide their reserved time. Displaying all reservations can be done without any hassle. Simply load up our Monitor module to display the schedule for today. You can even show flyers to get rid of your overflowing bulletin bord.

All of this is backed by our back-end system. Administrators can inport schedules without hassle, create groups and users with minimal effort and perform general maintenance if needed. Booket provides any group, like the football team or the bookclub, with the tools needed to easily edit their schedule and inform their members.

Why Booket?

Booket aims to lessen the load on organisations who rely on reservations. We do this by giving users the tools to adjust their allotted time and information and by providing organisators ways to book rooms in bulk. We also provide group support in order to give clubs a easy way to share their schedules in their clubs. Groups can even make adjust their own group, add and remove memebers and make announcements in their group.

Administrators can rest easy knowning that users can rely on password reset. We wanted to avoid users being dependent on support when it comes to accounts. We also equiped Booket with ways for users to customize their accounts with profile pictures, custom accent colors, a sleek Dark mode and custom wallpapers.

Showing information is extremely easy. Reservations are easily readable from our Monitor module and from the Booket Dashboard. You can upload your flyers to the Monitor and display them next to the schedule, making that overflowing bulletin bord useless.

The origin story of Booket.

The first version

We started developing Booket on December 2019. It's originated as a internship project in collaboration with Boutersem. We're tasked with solving the issues in their gymnasium regarding reservations and schedules. We responded with our Booket project. Our first version of Booket provided sparse but functional ways to display schedules and flyers on a television.

This eventually turned into our Monitor module. Originally, Booket only used a imported version of their schedule and showed all flyers placed in a folder. We are, at the time of writing, finishing up the module into a sleeker design with better functionality.

Booket in the early days.

The Name and the Logo.

The Logo.

Booket was not called Booket for the longest time. We didn't name it for a while because we never came up with a name. Because of that, we just called it 'project'. A lot of the names you can find in our project stem from videogames. Our back-end sport the names and locations from Valve's Team Fortress 2, our dashboard used to be called "Mannco.", for instance. You can still find these references.

Booket originates from Booker. The name got dropped during a meeting. A typo occured when we were taking notes, spelling 'Booker' as 'Booket'. We thought the name sounded nice and fitted our project well, so we rebranded our unnamed project to Booket and designed a new logo based on the name.

The logo originally was just our company logo. We tried a couple of designs before settling on the bookmark. Those designs composed simple illustrations of books and filed paper. Those designs have been lost to time.

The early designs.

Dashboard

The design of Booket was thought out from the beginning. We wanted to make our webpages and interfaces sleek, simple and modern to avoid clutter. We decided to use cards from the start to accomplish this. This worked amazingly well, allowing us to include mobile support with ease and even including Dark Mode, which as been a stample in our websites. The design of our dashboard worked great and has not changed since.
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Our Dashboard
The lists
Account icons
Frontpage

This website went through a lot of changes. We wanted to keep the sleek, simple and modern feel from Booket. We originally tried going with the card design like in Booket but scrapped the idea early on. We experimented in Adobe XD but the design didn't stick. Eventually, we settled on a blog-styled layout. This combined nicely with our article layout.

The original design in Adobe XD.
The frontpage

The future of Booket

Booket is still in development. We're working to improve our project and to deliver a nice service that can be used in the future. We're proud of our product so far and strive to deliver more functionality and stability in the future. Every memeber on our team has made something they can be proud of, both in the design and functionality department.

The NetwerkADF Team thanks you for reading about the Booket project and hope you'll find the development process as intresting as we do. We'll be bringing more stories to our website in the near future explaining some aspects of our projects or showing some of the history about our projects.

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We're NetwerkADF, a group of interns from Miniemeninstituut. We're currently working on Booket, the reservation system for Boutersem.