Airbnb’s design category. | Image: Airbnb
Airbnb is rolling out a huge app redesign this summer that its CEO Brian Chesky calls “the biggest change in a decade.” The new changes will let users search for stays based on categories and plan trips that include more than one home and are rolling out to users in the US today.
The presentation, and especially an intro video for the Sumer 2022 launch included in Chesky’s tweet, feels like it draws directly from Apple’s product launches over the last twenty years, which we’d expect from a company collaborating with famed former Apple designer Jony Ive and his firm LoveFrom. When asked if Ive was involved with this redesign, Airbnb spokesperson Liz DeBold Fusco said that “Overall, being able to tap into the expertise of one of the…
