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Category: ebay

Posts about eBay and two-sided marketplaces from my years leading design there

I’m hiring

Posted on 26 February 200813 October 2008

We’re expanding the User Experience Design team at eBay and are looking for a Lead Interaction Designer and a dozen other positions in IxD, Visual Design, and Content Strategy. Update 4/4/08: View jobs on LinkedIn: Interaction Designer, Senior IxD, Lead IxD Update 6/1/08: Positions are all filled. Thanks!

Job Opening: Interaction Design Manager

Posted on 1 October 2007

At eBay we’re expanding our design team and I’m now looking for an Interaction Design Manager to lead a team of talented designers.  In the role you’ll design direct your team on their projects from inception to launch enabling them to best meet their user needs and business goals. As we evolve from a mostly…

eBay To Go

Posted on 20 June 200721 June 2007

Last month eBay launched a new embeddable widget called eBay To Go which allowed bloggers to add a preview of an item or a search. Now eBay’s expanded that set to include a Seller and Store widget which is pretty cool. This allows eBay’s trading platform to extend to the far reaches of the blogosphere….

UED Offsite @ Nestldown

Posted on 13 April 200716 April 2007

34, originally uploaded by rajsid. A few weeks ago eBay’s user experience design team went to Nestldown off Hwy 17 for an offsite centered around effective use of personas. One huge challenge of using personas at eBay is the massive customer base of ours which essentially mimics much of the Internet. We are pioneering how…

Growing Team

Posted on 28 March 200724 April 2007

As eBay focuses more on our buyers I have the good fortune of now growing my UED team. If you’re a bright designer and you’re not sure where you career is going now or simply enjoy designing for millions of customers, eBay is the place for you. By joining our design team you’re sure to…

The significance of moves

Posted on 21 February 200721 February 2007

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…

Relevance Sorting

Posted on 5 November 20065 November 2006

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

Posted on 19 October 200625 April 2007

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

Posted on 19 October 200622 October 2006

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

Posted on 28 September 20063 October 2006

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….

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