In April 2004 my wife and I bought our first home after renting an apartment for the first couple years of our marriage. It marked an important step in our lives and I believe firmly established the concept of “home” for the two of us. Moves, as with any change, can be an emotional time…
Tag: ebay
Relevance Sorting
Since eBay’s began the dominant means for buyers to browse the search results page was to use the Ending Soonest or Newly Listed time based sorts. Now with the launch this week of Best Match our buyers have a new more relevant way to shop which ranks the results based on the item’s title and…
I’m (still) hiring
eBay’s growing its User Experience organization and so my team and others will continue to hire over the coming months. It’s an incredible opportunity to help make the unique eBay experience even more engaging and easy to use. Here’s what I’m looking for: Sr. Information Architect / UI Designer UI Designer – Browsing and Search…
eBay’s new browser policy
Matt Carey, eBay’s CTO, announced today a new browser policy for eBay.com which focuses support on the most modern of web browsers (accounting for 95% adoption). This means that eBay will focus on: Microsoft IE 6.0 and higher Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and higher (including my favorite variant Flock) Apple Safari 2.0 This is a big…
New shopping site, DoorOne
Shopping.com launched today a new comparison shopping site called DoorOne in the UK, France, Germany and Austrailia. It’s reported that this was due to the Shopping.X namespace being unavailable in all markets. However this release is more than just a different URL as they have introduced a number of new features: Multiple selection of facets….
I’m hiring (again)
I’m looking for a Senior UI Designer / Information Architect to join my design team. In this role you will join the team which focuses on enabling eBay buyers to find just the items they want out of the over 78 million unique items available every day. To give you a sense of scale, eBay…
eBay Watcher on Google Sidebar
Check out the new eBay plugin for Google Desktop’s sidebar which allows you to see items you’re watching. It’s a great example of two platforms working together. My colleague Alan Lewis (who collaborated w/Google on the project) has more.
What does cable TV and the internet have in common?
Esther Dyson was at eBay a couple weeks ago for a speaker series we have and she made a comment during her talk that really struck me. In discussing her upcoming PC Forum conference “Erosion of Power: Users in charge” she pointed out that in a Web 2.0 world where everyone is a participant there…
I’m hiring
I’m looking for 2 talented UI designers to join my product design team. We focus on the following: eBay’s search engine and results page (how to guide our 168 million shoppers to 20 million items that change each week) eBay’s community-based content platform (e.g. Review & Guides) eBay’s Homepage and other Landing Pages Update 3/28/06:…
BMW for Sale
Last night I tried out the latest eBay had to offer in selling cars. Was impressed by a few things but seriously disappointed elsewhere. The new listing process my friend Micah designed remembered my listing from a week ago that I didn’t even save—very cool a big timesaver. But I spent over 2 hours trying…