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SVP of Design, Expedia Group. Previously tinkering @airbnb @google

NYC and SF
Joined November 2007
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I built a little site to lower the idea barrier to jump into vibe coding and prototyping. It gives you experience ideas paired with datasets, and an index of open-source APIs.  Daily Prompt / Data: lnkd.in/eeE2Tx-R Open Data Index: lnkd.in/eGkfKiRt
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Lived in Barcelona, travelled there dozens of times since, collected Google Map Favorites over the years and made a travel guide from them in five minutes. Google Takeout —> Claude —> Notion Connector—> Enjoy the trip! stupendous-equipment-6f2.not…
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Apply now ✈️ Seattle: lnkd.in/gZEasbUb London: lnkd.in/gJsJsgEY
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Introducing the @ExpediaGroup Design Builder Internship. For designers who move fluidly across strategy, tooling, design, and code. Seattle: lnkd.in/gZEasbUb London: lnkd.in/gJsJsgEY
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Reunited with one of my favorites ❤️ @johnmaeda — John told @Expedia “Be a dance mom”, resulting in audible cheers
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Here at #DevDay - excited to announce that @Expedia is one of the first partners to collaborate with @OpenAI on the launch of Apps in ChatGPT - a new way to access immersive and helpful content in ChatGPT. Super proud to help make travel discovery more beautiful and easy ❤️
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Our team put together this beautiful little sizzle to hype our design system ❤️
Thanks for all the feedback on our design work in the Summer Release. Here’s a little preview of everything we worked on for our new design system—new font, navigation, layout system, colors, cards, and of course, icons. Much more to come…
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Replying to @sama
also the new app design is so great
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An incredible labor of love. A huge congrats to our entire team ❤️
Now you can Airbnb more than an Airbnb
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I have to share some details of our beautiful new icon set. Tiny but unbelievably mighty. The level of detail, lighting, tactility. Chefs kiss, so proud.
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We’ve made 460 upgrades in the past 3 years. Today we’re launching 75 more 🔈
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Pro-tip for Airbnb hosts ✨ now you can long press profile/menu to quickly jump between hosting and traveling.
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Whoomp there it is.
We’ve made it easier and more fun to plan group trips 🔊
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Step into your imagination. Introducing Icons
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2. We verified 1.5M listings in 5 countries to ensure the location is accurate and the home is real. We’re adding 30 more countries starting this fall
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We're doing 4 things to improve the quality of Airbnbs and help you understand what you're going to get: 1. It’s hard to distinguish between good Airbnbs and the best of the best—now you can. Starting in May, you'll see the percentile rank for every home in the top 25%, and the top 1% get a 🏆
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❤️ Great work team!
Airbnb 2023 Winter Release (sound on🔈)
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Seems small — but a huge, insanely important feature is coming.
Replying to @bchesky
2. Verified listings You shouldn’t have to worry that a listing is fake or isn’t where it says it is. That’s why we’ve built a new system to verify listings on Airbnb. Every verified listing will have an icon so you know it’s real
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In May, I asked you how we can improve Airbnb. Here’s an update on 5 of your top suggestions
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