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Volea — Landing page design.

A booking SaaS for padel clubs, designed to feel less like software and more like a court.

Volea is the operating system for padel clubs: online bookings, automatic leagues, and real-time court occupancy — replacing the WhatsApp threads and spreadsheets most clubs still run on.

The brief was self-set. Most booking tools for sports clubs look the same: generic SaaS blue, dashboard-first, zero personality. I wanted the landing page to feel closer to the sport itself — clay courts, clean lines, daylight — while still reading as a serious product a club owner would trust with their bookings.

Design direction

I moved away from the typical "tech startup" palette early. Warm, sun-bleached tones instead of cold blues; generous whitespace instead of dense feature grids. The hero leads with a single court photo, not an illustration — the product should feel tactile, not abstract.

Each feature block (bookings, leagues, occupancy) is shown as a small live UI fragment rather than an icon + paragraph. A club owner doesn't want to read "real-time occupancy" — they want to see the 78% and the empty 11am slot that's costing them money.

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Micro-interactions

Small movement was used sparingly: the occupancy bar fills on scroll, the league standings count up rather than appear instantly, and the booking time slots have a subtle hover state that mimics tapping through them on a phone. Nothing flashy — the goal was rhythm, not spectacle.

Outcome

The result is a one-page site that sells the product without a single stock photo of someone "playing padel and smiling at the camera." It's live at volea.io.