Today, Airbnb’s design team open sourced its internal library for writing React components that easily render directly to Sketch. Instead of trying to get Sketch to export to code, the Airbnb team ...

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It’s less surprising when you realize that Lapka is one of the most quietly thoughtful industrial design studios in the world, and Airbnb wants to own the end-to-end experience of travel. Even as ...

Working with media startup News Deeply, Airbnb has created questions for designers to ask themselves if they want to check their biases. The resulting installation—a multimedia project that told ...

Airbnb has tapped famed Apple design boss Jony Ive to spruce up the home-sharing startup’s products as it prepares to go public. Ive and his new firm, LoveFrom, will help Airbnb design the “next ...

Katie Dill is the director of experience design at Airbnb. In this episode, she channels her inner Steve Jobs to explain how design is not just how it looks, but how it works, both in the workplace ...

Airbnb today unveiled a new flat site and mobile design and replaced its logo with something that resembles an upper-case A, amongst other things. One glaring issue is that it looks nearly identical ...

“Anything that I can do to spread good design, color, whimsy, and a bit of organized madness in this sad, gray world is something I jump at,” says Apfel. The ludicrous, the lavish, even the downright ...

Airbnb’s prominent and large profile photos may facilitate discrimination against home-rental hosts who are black, according to a study conducted by two Harvard Business School professors. Reduced ...

The gospel in the Valley these days is startups must be "design-led." Sure, your founders have to be engineers, but your first hire had better be a designer. This is due largely to the current state ...