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Comments on “Airbnb Live There”
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Karri Saarinen@karrisaarinen · Design at Airbnb. YC alumn.
Hey everyone, I'm one of the designers of the project. We designed and built this new experience just in months for iPhone, Androids and tablets. One of the key things was we created design system which both exists in the design files, as well in the code. This allows us a robust and controlled way to build and design the app in the future to multiple platfo… See more
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Tom Jacobs@tom_jacobs
@karrisaarinen Well done. What're you calling the design system, and does it output xcode importable files?
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Joshua Pinter@joshuapinter · Product Dev at CNTRAL. Maker of ntwrk.
@karrisaarinen Would love to see a blog post about this and how you implemented. Especially important with the popularity of React Native.
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Karri Saarinen@karrisaarinen · Design at Airbnb. YC alumn.
@tompjacobs thanks! it doesn't automatically output xcode files. We are looking in to better tooling, but currently we have a master Sketch file, that includes all the components. The same set of components, with same definitions, sizing and styling, exists in iOS and Android platforms. Designers create their designs by dragging and dropping these componen… See more
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Noah Tsutsui@nipponese · Lead UX Designer, IMVU
@karrisaarinen how do you maintain sanity with protecting and updating the file? We tried to use Git for a similar system.
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Karri Saarinen@karrisaarinen · Design at Airbnb. YC alumn.
@nipponese We use git/github currently. We make the design changes to the Sketch file, create new branch, and submit a pull request with attached changelog. We also have a script (just cmdline sketchtool) that exports all the component artboards as PNG's that are also added with the new design files. That way you can see which artboards/components have chang… See more
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Karri Saarinen@karrisaarinen · Design at Airbnb. YC alumn.
@joshuapinter Yeah we're planning to share more of the system, process and technical details soonish :)
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Patrick Srail@patricksrail · Product Guy@Airbnb,Ex-AMZN/Hulu/MySpace
@karrisaarinen Awesome that you're thinking cross-platform so early on. Notice you only mention mobile, and not 10ft experiences, though :) - yet?. Early congrats to Dan, Alex and team!
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Joakim Isoaho@jommi · Aalto Entrepreneurship Society
@karrisaarinen Great job! :)
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Alex Moazed@alexmoazed · Co-author Modern Monopolies, CEO Applico
@karrisaarinen does the host's reputation/ranking on airbnb influence how visible their content/guidebook is?
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