The New Airbnb • Hacker News Board

Re: The New Airbnb

#131

Post by alphonse23 » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 5:44 AM UTC

nicarus1984 wrote: post #99

alphonse23 wrote: post #6

I can't say I really believe in Airbnb as a company and idea, but that is a damn well designed website -- I guess you could say the best money could buy..

What is so well-designed about the site? I'm no designer and I am not being cynical - I'm genuinely curious because, to me, the site is very similar to many others I have seen today. It's possible I don't have an eye for the details here, but I really don't see a huge difference. Ex. http://electricpulp.com/ http://spigotdesign.com/ ...

Well. The moving picture at the top, the Masonry image layout. It all really fits well together to convey what airbnb does -- and it really makes you want to connect with them. Airbnb is no doubt a very well funded company.

The second one you mention is also very well designed I'd say, but as you can see, it's a professional web design firm -- so it should look very well -- and as you can see it uses very similar techniques as airbnb.

Re: The New Airbnb

#132

Post by prawn » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 6:52 AM UTC

OrwellianChild wrote: post #112

adamesque wrote: post #80

I'm not sure I've ever met an opinion on a logo, name, or anything creative less than a month old that was worth a damn. When faced with something new, the tendency is to focus on the superficial, the easy joke, and it's too easy to let other opinions steer your own; they're momentarily on equal footing, you see. But the work will last longer than this moment. Your own opinion will evolve. The crowd will move on to t…

This is on-point for most logo designs, if not all. You can only really see the bad ones in retrospect (the London 2012 Olympics logo comes to mind [1]). That said, I think the motion-picture used as the background to the call to action is going to be very short-lived on basic UI principles. It's distracting, low-contrast, and pulls people away from the text, button, etc. I'm sure A/B testing will resolve the issue p…

The background movies that I saw while watching for a while just weren't appealing. AirBnb is full of beautiful, crazy and exciting accommodation options and now instead of showcasing those, they're pushing fairly bland movies and generic location shots first. Any travel website can do that.

Re: The New Airbnb

#133

Post by kewball » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 9:03 AM UTC

I don't really care about the new logo. But I do wish that the "new airbnb" allowed me to sort the listings by price. This is standard practice on any other site I can think of. Sure I can set a price range but this still forces me to have to think. I like the fact that when I sort results I know that as I continue scrolling the price is going to increase. That way when I find a place I am happy with I know that there is not going to be a place further on which is better value. Please let me know if I am just being stupid and have not figured out how to sort the results.

Re: The New Airbnb

#134

Post by mschaecher » Thu, Jul 17, 2014, 9:33 AM UTC

prawn wrote: post #132

OrwellianChild wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is on-point for most logo designs, if not all. You can only really see the bad ones in retrospect (the London 2012 Olympics logo comes to mind [1]). That said, I think the motion-picture used as the background to the call to action is going to be very short-lived on basic UI principles. It's distracting, low-contrast, and pulls people away from the text, button, etc. I'm sure A/B testing will resolve the issue p…

The background movies that I saw while watching for a while just weren't appealing. AirBnb is full of beautiful, crazy and exciting accommodation options and now instead of showcasing those, they're pushing fairly bland movies and generic location shots first. Any travel website can do that.

As a former Airbnb employee, this is honestly the only thing I don't like about the rebrandredesign!

Airbnb pry has one of, if not THE, world's largest collection of amazing real estate photography.

It's possible some massive real estate company might have as much, but I can't imagine how Airbnb doesn't have the largest collection of lived-in home interiors by a long shot.