Headout Studio

On demand environments: How we improved developer productivity and experience

At Headout, we live by 'move fast, improve fast'. As our team grew, testing and validating complex components became a challenge. Here's how we solved it.

Somesh Koli 28 Apr 2025

Rebuilding for scale: How Framer CMS transformed our design magazine

We recently wrapped another edition of Headout’s yearly design magazine—this time with a name: Pantheon. More than just

Shahroz Ahmad 26 Apr 2025

Nuggets: bite-sized travel wisdom at your fingertips

Explore the journey behind Nuggets, a feature crafted to offer travellers more than just the usual sights. From hidden gems to unique local experiences, Nuggets is designed to enhance your trip with curated recommendations, so you never miss a moment of discovery.

Sakshi Bhutra 22 Apr 2025

Pantheon: A year’s worth of design, told the way it deserved to be

How a design team turned invisible work into a legacy of reflection, clarity, and pride.

Ramakrishna V 22 Apr 2025

Headout HQ: Turning Our Office into a Living, Breathing Experience

How do we make this space truly ours? What if it was more than an office? That’s when it hit us—Museums! Their magic lies in pulling you in, telling a story, and leaving you inspired.

Zanetta Malar 17 Apr 2025

Rosetta: Breaking language barriers at Headout

From manual spreadsheets to seamless automation—discover how Rosetta, our purpose-built localization microservice, revolutionized Headout's translation workflow, slashing delivery times from days to minutes while speaking our customers' languages at global scale.

Anurag Patil 16 Apr 2025

Canary Deployment with Automated Rollback

With over 40 microservices and a fast-paced release cycle, Headout required a reliable, developer-friendly deployment strategy. We integrated Argo Rollouts into our internal platform service to enable one-click canary deployments, automatically catching faulty releases without manual intervention.

Joel K Biju 11 Apr 2025

Migration of service without downtime: The journey from fulfilment service to fs-neo

Migrating a core service with zero downtime sounds bold—until you do it. We rebuilt our legacy system into something modular, scalable, and future-ready. Here's how DDD, SpringBoot, Istio, and Redis powered one of our most ambitious backend transformations.

Abhinav Raj 6 Apr 2025

Making React Native more native: bringing iOS Spotlight to Headout

Turbo Modules let us extend React Native feature, enabling iOS Spotlight Search lookup for Headout bookings. Our Swift-based module indexes bookings with key details and embeds data for seamless previews. This article showcases how Turbo Modules can unlock powerful native features in React Native.

Hardik Srivastava 4 Apr 2025

Drops: Making luxury impossible to miss

Halfway through your Dubai plans, you crave a sunset yacht cruise. You brace for the hefty price… but find it on Headout app for just AED 49. Nope, not a dream.

Aditya Vora 24 Mar 2025

Build Faster, Ship Sooner: How we reduced 80% of our build time

Headout slashed build times from 15 to 3 minutes using Build Caching, Remote Build Caching, and GitHub Actions, boosting productivity and streamlining deployments.

Alpesh Vas 26 Dec 2024

Fluffy: Your AI travel companion

Meet Fluffy, your travel BFF! From handy tips to support, Fluffy has got your back.

Dvija Shah 27 Nov 2024

Building Figma plugins with magic (read AI)

Yeah, you read it right. In this post, we dive into how the Headout design team used AI to build 2 amazing Figma plugins which helped the team save hours ✨

Anurag Krishna 26 Nov 2024

Nudge, don't nag: Crafting delightful notifications

Ever had your phone buzz so much it felt like it was trying to breakdance? We wanted to transform those annoying pings into personalized gems.

Aruja Naik 18 Nov 2024

Automating the Chaos: A plugin to track, annotate and organize QA bugs

Design QA was a tedious task—until we decided otherwise. In this article, I’ll walk you through our journey of creating a Figma plugin that transforms bug tracking into an efficient process.

Debanwita Mahato 14 Nov 2024

Surfing waves: Building the wavy lines figma plugin

We all encounter coding challenges that slow us down, making us wish for a quick fix to streamline the process. Even though learning the logic behind a task can feel daunting, it’s essential to push through.

Shahroz Ahmad 6 Nov 2024

Numbers in motion: Our animated counter tool for decks

At Headout’s annual event, we showcase our wins with animated counters where numbers smoothly tick up. Creating these used to take hours in Adobe After Effects, so we built a web tool. Now, anyone can create them in minutes—just input numbers, set the speed, add symbols, and it’s done.

Kumar Siddharth 6 Nov 2024

AI at work: Automating product content generation at Headout

Writing engaging, structured content isn’t a walk in the park. Sure, we’ve always delivered, but when we started hearing the buzz around LLMs like ChatGPT-4, we couldn’t resist the idea of speeding things up.

Anurag Patil 22 Oct 2024

Curtains up: Unveiling the new London Theatre Tickets landing page

Same drama, new look ✨. In this article I'll cover the process of revamping the landing page of London Theatre Tickets, to enhance the experience of the website and improve the overall conversions.

Dvija Shah 12 Oct 2024

Are your maps helping users in maki-ng informed decisions?

Picture this: You're tucked into bed, mentally preparing for your big trip to Japan tomorrow afternoon. You glance

Prathiksha Bhat 10 Oct 2024

Headout PRO: Designing for a rewards based loyalty program

We launched a free loyalty program to see if offering perks and free tickets would encourage repeat bookings and keep users engaged.

Aruja Naik 10 Oct 2024

Purple on the go: The Headout experience on wheels

Hop on the Headout bus! Our eye-catching purple wrap not only makes it hard to miss but also turns every ride into a fun adventure filled with sights to see and places to explore!

Rohnit Rehani 10 Oct 2024

The baker’s choice: Adding a pinch of magic on the app homepage

Using a new insight driven recipe for the home page, our guests will be presented with meaningful recommendations based on their prior bookings with us.

Aditya Vora 8 Oct 2024

Design QA: The taste test your product desperately needs!

Ever wondered why your mom always asked you to taste the dish while cooking? (Spoiler: It wasn’t just for your approval)

Mukul Chaturvedi 6 Oct 2024

A beginners guide to Rive and micro-interactions

Discussing the magic of micro-interactions and providing a step-by-step guide to using Rive for your next project.

Shahroz Ahmad 28 Jun 2024

Membership magic : building communities in the digital age

Headout’s mission is to always be able to unlock a happier world by connecting high-quality live experiences with people all over the globe. Memberships are one such way to stay connected to our guests and improve overall user-satisfaction.

Sakshi Bhutra 24 Jan 2024