Web Design

Platform Design for Lumen & Co

A tired booking suite reimagined as a calm, accessible SaaS platform — designed, prototyped, and shipped in ten weeks.

Lumen team reviewing the new platform design together

Overview

Lumen & Co ran their bookings on a patchwork of spreadsheets and a decade-old admin panel. Support tickets were rising, onboarding took weeks, and every release felt risky. They needed a platform their staff — and their customers — could trust.

The challenge

Three user groups with conflicting needs: front-desk staff wanting speed, managers wanting reports, and customers wanting self-service. The old system served none of them well, and a rip-and-replace during peak season was out of the question.

Approach

1. Shadow the work

Two days on-site watching real bookings exposed the shortcuts the old UI forced on staff.

2. Design system first

A component library in code — not mockups — so every screen was already built when approved.

3. Parallel rollout

New platform ran alongside the old one, migrating one workflow at a time with zero downtime.

Deliverables & outcome

  • ✓Component library with 60+ tested, documented parts
  • ✓Customer self-service portal and staff console
  • ✓Migration runbooks; onboarding time cut from weeks to days
  • ✓Support tickets down by half within one quarter

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