Virgin Connect Roam · Beyond ONE · Global
Case Study · 01d

The eSIM,
made for travel.

Data plans in 190+ countries, bought from a browser in the minutes before a flight. I designed Roam's web storefront — the landing system, the destination search, and the Arabic version — as one product.

Virgin Connect Roam web storefront — 'The eSIM Made for travel' hero with destination search and travel photography mosaic
Role
Senior Product Designer
Product
Travel eSIM · Web storefront
Coverage
190+ countries · English + Arabic
Scope
Landing system · Destination search · RTL
The Brief

Roaming is the most
hated product
in telecom.

Everyone has the story: land, connect, and get billed like the phone spent the week calling home. Travel eSIMs fix the economics — but the buying experience decides whether anyone trusts the fix. You're asking a traveler to buy invisible connectivity, for a country they haven't landed in, from a website they found yesterday.

Roam is Virgin in motion — the brand's confidence applied to the traveler's five minutes of pre-flight admin. The storefront had one job: from "where are you going?" to a working plan, with zero doubt in between.

The Search · Interactive

"Where will
you roam?" —
in both directions.

The search is the product: country, region, or the whole globe. And because Roam serves the Gulf's travelers too, the storefront speaks Arabic natively — structurally mirrored, not machine-flipped. Toggle it yourself.

Roam destination search in English — Where will you roam? with country, region and globe toggle
Roam destination search in Arabic — أين ستتجول؟ — fully mirrored right-to-left
English — reading order leads from the left
The System

One storefront,
every pocket.

The landing system scales from a 1440px desktop to the phone someone is actually holding in an airport queue. Same components, same hierarchy, same five-minute promise — the layout adapts, the decision path doesn't.

Roam destination search — desktop layout
Desktop — the search owns the screen
Roam mobile web — the same storefront on a phone
Mobile web — same promise, one hand
Where it connects

The RTL system,
doing its job.

The Arabic storefront above isn't a one-off translation — it's the output of the right-to-left system I run across all five Beyond ONE brands: the variant-first component logic, the mirror rules, the bidi craft. Roam is that system working at full speed on a brand-new product.

Design once, speak twice. That's the whole point.

See the system behind it
Arabic & RTL