Kelly Sharp owner ofKD Designs, located in Tulsa, OK, has won for several various projects in this Best of the Best. She has worked with clients in other states and internationally and shares her story of how she got into the staging and design industry. “I tookAudra’s coursein 2019 ...
Our users tell the story better than we do.Most people in the world hear about us from a friend. Word-of-mouth is the strongest driver of our product. Why is that so important? The concept of Airbnb is new and foreign to a lot of people. A lot of questions come up. You say “...
I think also just thinking about how the comps play out for the balance of the year, if you'll recall where we were last year, you know, September and October were quite soft, and then November and December had a bit of a rebound. So, those are the comps that will be lapping as ...
How Airbnb’s success forced an entire industry to reevaluate the importance of design. From the very beginning, Airbnb has been an unusual story of hardship, perseverance, and experimentation. The story of how Airbnb started is similarly unconventional—and it all began with politically themed ...
I stumbled across a huge Airbnb scam that’s taking over London, this story is everywhere but it wasSi Lumbwho first sent me the link. After reading the massive long piece I was quite shocked at how elaborate the scam was. I won’t spoil it but its bad then it gets worst still. ...
From a graphic design perspective, the logo is a success, and at its core the Internet is fickle and has a very short-term memory. So let’s all have a good laugh at the silly new Airbnb logo and realize that no matter how much you think through your design, someone is going to ...
His solution, then, has been to hack leadership by going far and wide in search of best practices. So far, that approach seems to be working for Chesky, thanks in part to the fact that he has a temperament well-suited to the quest for mastery, as we’ll see. But the story of Ches...
We’re very welcoming and very inclusive of it. But when we, when we design our product, when we think about what to prioritize, we are always thinking about the frequent camper. who goes tent camping or RV camping, and what do they need? And so I think that customer is fundamentally...
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(2014) describe the success factors of these companies as follows: they have a compelling higher purpose, they dare to experiment, they have smart interfaces, they build on community and engagement, manage algorithms, have leveraged assets and empowered autonomous workers. Airbnb, Uber, Etsy, Git...