How Booking.com manipulates users

Re:How Booking.com manipulates users by robocat on Thursday September 21, 2017 @05:39AM (#15301861)

Designing good controls for the web is really hard. Spend 10 minutes testing any set of well known components, and you will find multiple bugs (especially if you know how to exercise the parts that are hard to get right).

Virtually every calendar control for booking a date range sucks. Airlines, Airbnb, hotels, whatever.

Having someone work full time on making an intuitive calendar control makes sense to me, and I personally have spent months on single components, and we are just a tiny company...

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Re:How Booking.com manipulates users by sAbakumoff on Thursday September 21, 2017 @06:32AM (#15302049)

I understand that it was more like everyday A/B testing of the calendar adjustment because booking seems to be very data-driven - developers work on teams that are assigned to the specific area of the web-site, or even the specific target groups(honey mooners, business traveller, etc.) and try new features/adjustments by using A/B testing.

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