Rachel Been
@rachelbeen
Design Director at @airbnb, Ex-Googler @madebygoogle + Material Design
Our team put together this beautiful little sizzle to hype our design system ❤️
Thanks for all the feedback on our design work in the Summer Release. Here’s a little preview of everything we worked on for our new design system—new font, navigation, layout system, colors, cards, and of course, icons. Much more to come…
An incredible labor of love. A huge congrats to our entire team ❤️
Now you can Airbnb more than an Airbnb
I have to share some details of our beautiful new icon set. Tiny but unbelievably mighty. The level of detail, lighting, tactility. Chefs kiss, so proud.
We’ve made 460 upgrades in the past 3 years. Today we’re launching 75 more 🔈
Pro-tip for Airbnb hosts ✨ now you can long press profile/menu to quickly jump between hosting and traveling.
Whoomp there it is.
We’ve made it easier and more fun to plan group trips 🔊
Congrats to my husband @bnsbrown11 on officially launching and leading Renew Home ❤️ renewhome.com
2. We verified 1.5M listings in 5 countries to ensure the location is accurate and the home is real. We’re adding 30 more countries starting this fall
We're doing 4 things to improve the quality of Airbnbs and help you understand what you're going to get: 1. It’s hard to distinguish between good Airbnbs and the best of the best—now you can. Starting in May, you'll see the percentile rank for every home in the top 25%, and the…
❤️ Great work team!
Airbnb 2023 Winter Release (sound on🔈)
Seems small — but a huge, insanely important feature is coming.
2. Verified listings You shouldn’t have to worry that a listing is fake or isn’t where it says it is. That’s why we’ve built a new system to verify listings on Airbnb. Every verified listing will have an icon so you know it’s real
In May, I asked you how we can improve Airbnb. Here’s an update on 5 of your top suggestions
I found these negatives from my father a year ago in my parents basement. I built a darkroom just to be to able print them.
Sometimes I miss shooting photos. Our studio at @billboard looked like a freshman dorm room with weird leather shag rugs and broken furniture but we made some damn good work there (Nicki’s heels went right through that red pleather chair)
First day of school outfit. Super excited to join a great team - can’t wait to work for Teo Connor and see some old pals @BrendanPascoe @jonasnaimark Derek Kim
Now officially director of design at @Airbnb ❤️
The new, redesigned @Google Home app—now on #PixelTablet 🏠 Bring together over 80,000 supported smart home devices, including all of your Matter-enabled devices¹ ✨ #GoogleIO