Teo Connor - How Airbnb innovates with design

Dive Club 🤿 by Ridd

Episode notes

Airbnb is one of the truly iconic design-driven companies. They set the bar for design innovation in so many ways. So this week’s episode is a deep dive with their VP of Design, Teo Connor.

She gives us a behind-the-scenes look at how design operates at Airbnb including:

  • How Airbnb is bringing vitality to the visual language
  • How Airbnb is empowering designers to be designers
  • How to succeed in a design review with Brian Chesky
  • Why it’s not enough to think in terms of flows and screens
  • Why Airbnb is updating their design system to use more 3D
  • How they redesigned the checkout and welcome experience
  • Why Airbnb has prioritized prototyping in code earlier in the process
  • a lot more
Keywords
designproduct designux designui design