What visitors need
Barbershops live on walk-ins, and walk-ins walk out when the wait is ninety minutes. Most shop sites hide the wait, send regulars to a generic booking app and look like a salon with the name changed.
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EXAMPLE SITE / Barbershop
Stropwell Barbers — a site for a neighbourhood barbershop
A three-chair barbershop in Pittsburgh with a walk-in line you can join from your phone, beside booking your own barber into a real slot.
Stropwell Barbers — barbershopWalk-in line and booking
How it looks
We put the wait first and made the line live: the chairs, who's in them and minutes left, the tickets waiting, and a ticket of your own that counts down. Booking sits beside it, on the same price board, with each barber's real openings, and the whole page is set like the shop's own signs.
Who it suits
Two complete fictional journeys in the page: take a ticket and follow it to the chair (or let someone ahead, or leave), and book a named barber from the job through validated details to a confirmation you can add to your calendar.
LOOK AND FEEL
Mood, color and pages.
Mood
- sign-painted
- iron
- honest
- sharp
Color
IronBonePole redBrass
Pages included
- Live walk-in wait board: minutes, people waiting, chairs working, open now
- Walk-in line: chairs with minutes left, waiting tickets, take a ticket with validation
- Your ticket: place and wait ticking down, text at fifteen minutes, let one go ahead, leave, called and check-in
- Price board with chair time on every service
- Barber booking: job, named barber or first free, ten-day strip, real openings, validated details, confirmation with a calendar file
- Barber profiles, a filterable gallery of cuts, hours with today marked and a drawn block map
DESIGN CHOICES
Three choices that shape the site.
The wait comes first
The live walk-in wait and head-count lead the page, before any sales line, because that is what decides whether someone walks over now.
A line you can hold from your phone
Take a ticket with a name and a number, watch your place and wait tick down as the chairs work, let someone go ahead or give the ticket up.
A price board with minutes
Every service shows its chair time beside its price, the way the card on the wall does, and each line books straight into the barber's real openings.
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