Case study · Hospitality · Website design
Hard Rock
Hotels.
A global booking platform for a music brand that happens to run thirty hotels.
+34%
Bookings post-launch
−18%
Bounce rate
+45%
Session duration
25+
Properties, four continents
6
Weeks, brief to handoff
Hard Rock isn't a hotel chain with music on the walls. It's a music brand that runs a hotel chain — and the website finally had to say so.
01 · The brief
One voice. Thirty wildly
different properties.
The Vegas casino floor, the Bali surf resort, the Maldives overwater suite, the Davos ski lodge — all under one brand that promises “Feel Like a Rock Star,” with music-native programs to back it up: Sound of Your Stay®, Unity™ loyalty, Rock Om wellness, even Unleashed (custom playlists for pets — no joke).
The funnel had to convert four different audiences at once: loyalty members, first-time leisure travelers, event planners, and casino guests. Four segments, four regions, hundreds of property pages.
02 · Two front doors
The brand site sells the myth.
The property page sells the room.
Both flagships, end to end — hover either page and it scrolls. Music and architecture lead every entry path; the booking bar never leaves the frame.
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Corporate home — the global brand layer
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Property page — where the booking happens
03 · The audience split
Four audiences,
four clean paths.
Loyalty members authenticate and get routed personally. Leisure travelers get destination-led discovery with the music programs as differentiators. Planners get a venue finder that filters by capacity and casino-vs-resort. Casino guests get the gaming subset, cleanly separated.
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04 · The system
Rock-and-roll luxury,
without the nostalgia act.
A typography and motion system that reads “backstage at a very good show” — not Times-Square-café memorabilia. Deep purple, brass gold, photography that always has a person in it.
05 · The property template
One template that survives
Vegas and the Maldives.
Rooms, dining, casino, events, offers — every property speaks the same layout language while local photography and programs carry the personality. Hundreds of pages, zero re-design per property.
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06 · In the hand
Most bookings start
on a phone anyway.
The result
Bookings up 34%. Bounce down 18%.
Sessions 45% longer.
Post-launch, the site finally runs at the scale of the brand — and the brand finally has a site that says what it actually is. Delivered in six weeks: creative direction, UX strategy, and the full UI system across corporate and property templates.
“When you stay at Hard Rock, you have arrived.” The site's job was to make you feel that before you booked.
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