Greetings! It’s remarkable how technology continually evolves and impacts the tools we use for creating and developing products. Figma has recently gained recognition as an excellent alternative to Sketch and Abstract, offering product teams a more collaborative and efficient design process. At trivago, our design team consists of passionate Figma admirers. While we acknowledge that each organization has unique needs and procedures, we found switching from Sketch to Figma a valuable overall experience. Figma is filled with collaborative and user-friendly tools for ideation and prototyping that sets it apart from its competitors.

At trivago we live diversity. We have 55 localised platforms and internally you can find talents from around 90 different nationalities all working towards providing a better experience to our customers. We are constantly evolving as we face organisational, societal and industrial challenges. That's why we identify a lot with this year's theme "A New Dawn", as we too explore the meaning and evolution of our approaches and practices. This year we have decided to support IxDA20 through sponsorship for the first time. It reflects our belief and increasing efforts to invest in Design and Research at trivago as we strive for an inclusive world.

As a user researcher, it is important to know more about our users and their preferences concerning our product. One way to do that is by conducting surveys.

In order to gather user feedback from our global markets, we need to conduct a survey with a slightly different set of questions/translations for different countries, and then analyze the results and compare if there is any difference across countries concerning user needs.

tl;dr: continuously monitor your CDN and origin servers on layer 3 with tools like MTR. Layer 3 issues on external middleware can have a significant impact on layer 7 web performance.

I’m a product designer at trivago, and would like to share some insights into one of our biggest projects we tackled in the last period. Well, from a product design perspective at least.

As we all adventure around this space that we call the Internet, consuming content is often on our minds. Naturally with the vast amount of data, filtering out what’s not interesting is a huge time saver. In order to help you find your ideal hotel at the best price, trivago’s filters are one of the best ways to do so. Sadly, some visitors couldn’t even access them due to poor accessibility and performance.

Accessibility is an important topic for anyone who builds things for the web, and one that is neglected far too often. We at trivago have also been guilty of this, but we are slowly making changes with the aim of improving the accessibility of our site. Identifying and implementing these changes has not been easy. We have faced a number of challenges along the way, and we continue to do so. But we are committed to improving our site so that anyone can access and use the service we provide, regardless of how they do so.

At trivago, we are using an in-house developed Selenium framework based on cucumber-jvm to run automated browser tests. As the test suite increased (the time exceeded 45 minutes for a full run), we were looking for ways to move away from sequential towards parallel execution. For Cucumber, there are actually not that many options available:

At trivago we are building and using a Pattern Library which is based on Brad Frost's Pattern Lab adapted to our needs; our patterns are written in Twig.