Alex Schleifer
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When dropped, the AirPods case reliably ejects both earbuds in random directions at impressive speeds. Seems intentional.
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I’m sorry but you can’t separate UX from UI. Every designer should be able to make something that: solves a user problem, solves a business need, and expresses the brand while doing it.
It’s how it works, feels & looks while making stakeholders happy. It’s relatively simple.
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Confession: I like having the url bar at the bottom in Safari. It’s easy to reach, the whole browser UI sits together, it makes sense to swipe to to move across tabs.
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#laserboy
and its soundtrack are out on
#itchio
for FREE. Download today for PC, Mac, and Linux!
#indiegame
#pixelart
@unientgames
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My 4 year old recommended I get a Tesla Plaid today. When I asked where he heard about it he said
@DougDeMuro
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Join me in welcoming
@timallendesign
as our VP of Design! In my new role as Chief Design Officer, I’ll partner with him to grow our incredible global team (and build amazing things). Read more about
@airbnbdesign
’s next chapter: 👏
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Big day today.
@airbnbdesign
Summit 2020 kicked off with a day of amazing stories and creativity from global teams. We used to all fit in a small bus, now look at us. We will be sharing out some of the amazing work on display on our blog soon.
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This week we announced Airbnb Trips and our Trip Platform. We are looking for amazing people to help us change travel. Who's in? DM me.
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Let's close the gap between design and code. Here's our little project. It's open source. Tell us what you think! 🎉
We’re excited to share our new tool today! Try it out and let us know what you think:
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That’s not our logo
Why have Google, Airbnb, Spotify and Pinterest all changed their logos to a similar font? Because their goals have shifted away “from making noise and standing out ..”
(via
@FastCoDesign
@harrymccracken
)
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I'm working with the fine folks at
@thegameband
on
@blaseball
and other exciting projects. We're looking for a talented UI designer. Totally remote, flexible, and you get to work on something incredible. If you're interested,
@reply
or DM me.
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Pros like me usually use clay but if you’re in a hurry you can use INTERACTIVE PAPER CRAFT to prototype software.
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We're looking for an amazing presentation designer to join Airbnb in SF -- DM me!
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If I was still at Airbnb I probably would have said this work was “eggcelent” and everyone would have groaned. Miss those times.
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Y’all wasting your time on Twitter. Reddit is the best place for discourse on the internet.
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All this GDPR shit should be built into browsers. Users hate the bad pop-ups, website designers hate making pop-ups and hence they’re bad. Everyone just clicks accept all. Everyone loses. Good idea. Terrible execution.
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Just noticed the custom Google Doodle when you search for “wordle” — delightful.
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When you start thinking of Google as an advertising company and not a tech company then their inability to succeed in phones, gaming, etc… makes a ton of sense. Why would you expect an ad company to have the culture and commitment to win at consumer technology?
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It's not "how things work" vs "how things look". That conversation started because some felt designers just wanted to make pretty things that didn't work. This isn't art, it's design. It's just "how things work" and everything that goes into that, including aesthetics.
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Any great UI/UX designers looking to move into video games? I've been working with Sam at The Game Band for a few years and am so excited about what the team is working on. Join us! Reach out or check out the link.
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We've just released our vector animation engine. Get it!
Say hello to Lottie! Our new cross-platform, open-source tool makes adding animation to apps a snap:
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I organized my studio instead of making new music. Procrastination is a great motivator.
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Even though I wasn’t involved with that one I’m still super proud of the Airbnb summer 2022 release. Categories are a game changer that took time and effort to get right. “Design” as the first category of course. Congrats
@bchesky
and everyone who’s worked on this.
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Incredible work. So many talented people. Incredibly proud of our team today.
#airbnbforeveryone
There are 4.5 million homes on Airbnb. But how do you find the one that’s right for you?
Today, we’re announcing new products and programs to make it easy to find the perfect home every time you travel–– an Airbnb for everyone.
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Big thank you to team
@airbnb
working tirelessly since yesterday to help our community welcome immigrants affected by the
#muslimban
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“How Airbnb is reimagining the office experience” by
@AirbnbDesign
’s very own Aaron Taylor Harvey
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Dec/Jan issue with cover by Pixar’s John Lee and writing, art and photography from a host of wonderful people. On newsstands now!
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This is why PMs with no technical acumen or designers who say they only do UX make me nervous. When you build a team you want people to be able to own as much as possible in their field. Also, every team member needs to have some understanding of the work the others are doing.
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It’s my birthday today. I Thought I was turning 47 but am actually turning 46. A surprise present to myself. 🥳
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A current CEO + a previous CEO sit idly by while a co-worker is being bullied in public by a powerful jerk and his jerk squad. While I expect the plan is to make people leave you don’t have to take this shit. Life’s too short and you’re too talented.
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Welcome to the world of trips. So proud of everyone at
@airbnb
for all the passion they poured into this. /cc
@bchesky
@joebot
@mikecurtis
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@linusgsebastian
This…
Please talk to your kids, namely boys ages 8-18 about the manosphere and radicalization, and monitor their social media intake cause EVERY boy who is online is being actively recruited into these spaces
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The risks of having a design tools team working on making everyone’s life easier: out of the office for 4 days, I’m replaced by an AI...
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Proud of our community for coming together and making this possible. More to come.
In March, Airbnb Experiences hosts all over the world had to stop doing what they love most. So they tried something new.
Thanks to the creativity and passion of our hosts, Airbnb Experiences are now online.
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This just aired the Emmys. Excited to be sharing more real hosts’ stories and proud of our team for all the work poured into this.
Millions of Airbnb hosts.
All one of a kind.
All moving us closer to a world where anyone can
#BelongAnywhere
.
Learn more about hosting on Airbnb:
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When you can't find a tool that works for you — build it.
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It’s critical to have people that can formulate a detailed vision for things like interface, technical infrastructure, business models. Why would you split each of these into tiny fiefdoms? How can you even talk about UX and not cover visual design?
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Like it or not AR is going change the way we use computers. Time to get to work.
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Making a good product is hard. Scaling a product is hard. Not letting scale ruin a product is nearly impossible.
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So — I’m not engaging with design twitter today, stop asking. Just remember making great things while working with smart people should be fun.
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It's important to note that Amazon sells both bricks and mortar
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New studio needs more furniture (and art and plants and more synths) but not regretting the light pink wall at all.
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@profgalloway
What “woke revolution”? Someone appropriated the term and used it to rebrand social progress in order to activate some boomers into thinking everyone was out to get them. We live in times of actively questioning how we used to do things. We should embrace it.
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@iamharaldur
Have first hand account that Zero was created for men. People are acting like this shit never happens. 
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Icons are boring today
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Real Wayfair ad I got on Instagram for apparently real furniture. So many questions.
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Making video games is a brutal, messy process. Delusion required to get you through days where nothing works and you feel like a fool for even trying. Today is not such a day. Today everything works and it's glorious. Can't wait to share what we're working on.
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Seeing POTUS spend a ton of time discussing a buggy website launch is a little surreal. Now he knows what my last 15 years have been like.
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If you want to work harder and make less money start making video games.
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#LASERBOY
IS OUT ON
#STEAM
! A wild ride so far.
#Gamedev
can be hard but we've had so much fun. Now we take a small break, watch out for bugs/feedback, & also begin pre-production on our next (much bigger) project. Proud of the tiny
@unientgames
team. <3
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So proud of this team
This
@Airbnbdesign
toolkit will help you create products and services that are inclusive and useful for most people.
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So proud to be part of SF Design Week 2017. Visit our installation with
@newsdeeply
Ready to challenge your assumptions? Explore our
#ShadowtoLight
installation created w/
@NewsDeeply
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#sfdesignweek
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Slowly getting used to Procreate to draw concept art. Such a delight to use with the Apple Pencil.
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What an idiotic take. High-speed rail is the most sci-fi ass shit you can’t experience today. Just go to any country connected by ultra fast efficient trains and come back when you know what you’re talking about.
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg wants to make the United States the “global leader” in high‐speed rail. That’s like wanting to be the world leader in electric typewriters, rotary telephones, or steam locomotives.
#CatoTransit
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@karrisaarinen
Man, I still have both. I want to move to Apple Music but discovery engine is junk and I still find it impossible to quickly save/favorite a song. Spotify still has the edge on just starting a station based on song or artist. Both have terrible UIs. Tidal anyone?
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Pro tip: adding "reddit" to a Google Search often improves results. I've been using this for a couple of years but did you know it can often remove the 4 (!!!) above the fold ads for simple queries? Basic query (left) and reddit-hack query (right). 🤦
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Reading all those
#Config2023
updates reminds me of the incredible team we built at
@airbnb
. Seeing them thrive is a trip. Miss you all. Happy to see you thrive.
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Grateful to the team
@firstround
for making this happen 🙏
A dispatch to define product design, from
@Airbnb
's VP of Design (ft.
@alexoid
, new on
@Firstround
Review)
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I feel partly responsible for promoting the term “product designer” even though I never liked it. Should have made more of an effort to switch the team to “interface designer” but I ran out of time/steam/courage.
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More!
Ready to play with Airbnb Cereal? Put our typeface to the test on our new experiment site:
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About to do a Q&A with my good friend and creative partner
@Mildenhall
for Portland Design Week -- here's us being silly earlier today
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This is so spot on. Still laughing.
Literally any podcast host asking their guest a question
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