
Book a desk in 30 seconds — your espresso is ready when you arrive
Project and solution
Landing page for a specialty café and laptop-friendly space in central Almaty, aimed at freelancers, startup founders and anyone who meets people downtown. Their main frustration: circling the room looking for a free table with a socket and catching disapproving looks from staff because of the laptop. The goal was to move choosing a seat and ordering online, and lead visitors to book a desk or pre-order a drink.
My role
Research, structure, copy, design and development.
What I did
- A “familiar situation → solution” UX structure: four pain points of Almaty cafés — no free seats, hunting for a socket, “no laptops”, chaotic bookings — plus a “what we have → what you get” table.
- An interactive floor plan: three zones (by the window, for meetings, quiet corner), “free / freeing up soon / taken” statuses and one-tap table selection.
- Online pre-ordering: a menu by category and a basket with extras and a running total — the drink is ready at the exact minute you arrive.
- Bookings and orders go to the café’s Telegram bot via a Cloudflare server function, with field validation, spam protection and rate limiting.
- Conversion triggers: a −20% welcome promo code, a live occupancy indicator for peak hours and a separate booking flow for the 8–12-person event area.
- A retro-terminal style: neon green on a dark background, a pixel font, a custom pixel cursor and a fortune cookie on the first screen.







