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December 2020 To celebrate Airbnb’s IPO and to help future founders, I thought it might be useful to explain what was special about Airbnb. What was special about the Airbnbs was how earnest they were. They did nothing half-way, and we could sense this even in the interview. Sometimes after we interviewed a startup we’d […]
Boosting computer vision accuracy and performance at Airbnb By: Pei Xiong, Aaron Yin, Jian Zhang, Lifan Yang, Lu Zhang, Dean Chen In recent years, the integration of artificial intelligence with travel platforms has transformed how people search for and book accommodations. As a leading global marketplace for unique travel experiences and accommodations, Airbnb constantly strives […]
Take SectionHeader as an example. This UI component is used to communicate the structure on the page and group content together. We mark this component to be an accessibility heading in the component code so it is accessible in all screens that contain this component. We invested in automated accessibility testing and linting to run […]
Part 4 of our series on Airbnb’s Page Performance Score. Luping Lin Airbnb’s home grown Page Performance Score (PPS) is designed to capture the rich, complex realities of performance by collecting a multitude of user-centric performance metrics and formulating them into one single 0-100 score. In this post we will deep dive into how we […]