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Defining Product Design: A Dispatch from Airbnb's Design Chief

Defining Product Design: A Dispatch from Airbnb's Design Chief

Airbnb VP of Design Alex Schleifer shares how design can become a more intentional, integrated discipline — and why it must be in order to better build products.
Bureaucracy Isn’t Inevitable — Here’s How Airbnb Beat It

Bureaucracy Isn’t Inevitable — Here’s How Airbnb Beat It

Airbnb VP Engineering Mike Curtis on the practices and principles you can put in place to bust bureaucracy before it starts.
How Design Thinking Transformed Airbnb from a Failing Startup to a Billion Dollar Business

How Design Thinking Transformed Airbnb from a Failing Startup to a Billion Dollar Business

Airbnb Co-founder Joe Gebbia talks about the true meaning of being scrappy and being willing to do things that don't scale.
Stop Dancing Around Criticism and Put It to Use with These Tips from Airbnb's Head of Experience Design

Stop Dancing Around Criticism and Put It to Use with These Tips from Airbnb's Head of Experience Design

Katie Dill, Airbnb's Head of Experience Design, on how to critique your colleagues' work the right way to move things forward.