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Airbnb Stories: design jam

A storytelling app that help serve families or friends who travel together

Client

AIRBNB

Year

May 2020

Families are stuck at home due to the coronavirus, but when the shelter-in place orders lift, there is need to create new memories with shared travel experiences and go back to booking stays with Airbnb. As members document their family trips, the stories they
tell could create earned trust for local Airbnb hosts by incorporating them into these stories. 

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Challenge Brief

Empower families and groups of friends who travel together a collaborative way to document, organize, and share their travel experiences and stays to the larger Airbnb community. In a mobile app, provide a way to combine photos and/or notes and transform their shared family trips into immersive stories about the culture and destinations they visit.

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Scope

Airbnb stories is all set to stand out amidst the horde of social media apps through its special focus on content relevant to travel and travelers. Airbnb stories is one stop solution for sharing and finding every essence of traveling with homely and secure feelings.

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Site Map

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Approach

Travel is fun, inspiring, adventure, romantic, learning culture, peaceful, you name it. Airbnb stories serve to capture and express each emotion of travel and associate with the places you visit. With Airbnb stories you can post travel stories, get travel suggestions, know about destination/guests/hosts and much more.

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Idea

To promote sense of security amongst the airbnb community to assure safe stay at airbnb homes. The host have suffered a huge loss due to COVID and created a loss of trust within the community. Therefore, to overcome this fear, it is highly important to keep the spirit of airbnb community high. 

From browsing to interacting with the features, this site map covers all important elements of the application.

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App Structure

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Interface Elements

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PROTOTYPE

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The beginning

This is the first screen a user would see which aims to create a sense of peace and security to the user

Splash screen

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Browsing

These set of different feed screen lets the user browse through content posted by the airbnb community, their friends and families. Custom selection of the category allows the user to view stories according to their preferences. 

The Feed

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Explore

Locations according to your intend of travel

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Airbnb stories allow you create a profile where you can monitor your activities and save places you would live to visit in the future

The Profile

About you

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Share

Here the user can share their stories and experiences that they had with airbnb homes. This not only lets the community know about the place but also allow a boost to the airbnb host.

The Stories

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