Context
Patan Heritage Walk is an official digital tourism platform for Patan, endorsed by Lalitpur Metropolitan City and local stakeholders. The product delivers local stories, cultural context, and place-based information through mobile apps and an information kiosk. It helps visitors explore heritage sites with structured, trustworthy guidance.
The mobile experience supports both self-guided exploration and guided tours, including the ability to connect with local guides for personalized journeys.
My Role
I contributed to the digital product experience used for both tourism discovery and on-site cultural storytelling.
My contributions included:
- building and refining mobile user flows for category-based heritage exploration
- supporting content-rich screens for temples, monasteries, arts, crafts, and local culture
- implementing location-focused experiences for site discovery
- contributing to delivery across mobile and kiosk-oriented product surfaces
Technical Challenges
- structuring a large cultural content set into an intuitive navigation model
- balancing storytelling depth with mobile usability for first-time visitors
- ensuring consistency between mobile and kiosk presentation formats
- supporting local context and authenticity while keeping content discoverable
Stack
- JavaScript
- React
- React Native
- content-driven mobile information architecture
Outcomes
- Delivered a structured digital guide experience for official Patan heritage information
- Improved visitor self-navigation through category and location-driven discovery
- Supported local storytelling and cultural visibility through accessible digital media
- Enabled both independent exploration and local guide-assisted experiences
Extra Feature Details
The app includes curated exploration paths so visitors can choose experiences based on interest area:
- Fine Arts
- Spiritual Walk
- Healers
- Foodie
- Business
It also provides category-level detail pages and location-specific views for landmarks and route discovery.
In addition to mobile delivery, the same content model supports kiosk-based access for on-site discovery and tourism information.
What This Proves
This project shows my ability to build user-friendly products in content-heavy domains where clarity and trust matter. It also demonstrates cross-platform delivery for real public-facing use cases.
Learn More
For more details, visit the patanheritagewalk.