New Way to Shop on eBay

I helped drive forward a program of user experience changes to our search products during 2005. The first of which launched in May 2005 as the alpha test for a “New way to Shop on eBay”. In addition to general simplification of the Finding UI, it introduced the following improvements:

  • Multi-faceted browsing (e.g. search by bed size OR brand OR product type)
  • Matching buyer and seller language (e.g. CK = Calvin Klein)
  • Multiple selection of concepts (e.g. see all the size 8.0 & 8.5 shoes)

Alpha Test (May – June 2005)

A limited test was run in five categories in May thru June of 2005 to a small percentage of users. Shown below is a screenshot from our bedding category. Press Release

New Way to Shop on eBay (May 2005)

Update:

  • Finding experience launched within eBay Express (April 2006)

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