Design thinking is a process for creative problem solving that involves empathizing with users, defining the problem from their perspective, ideating potential solutions, prototyping ideas, and testing them with users. The process helped Airbnb transform by having employees experience being travelers and capture quality photos for hosts. They experimented with small, non-scalable changes like switching from stars to hearts for ratings, which increased engagement by over 30%.
The simple changefroma
star toaheartincreased
engagementby over 30%.
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stuff and try newthings.
Airbnb teamoften starts
with acreative
hypothesis,
implementsachange,
reviews howitimpacts
the businessand then
repeats thatprocess.