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In April of 2006, eBay launched a new web site entitled
eBay Express targeting "Convenience-Oriented Buyers." The
site contained a subset of all eBay items that met the following
criteria:
- Only Buy It Now items (no auctions)
- Only new items
- Only high-quality sellers
- Only items that had pictures
- Only items that offered payment via PayPal or credit
cards
My role on the project was to design the search experience.
For more than a year, I had been involved with a research
team at eBay charged with creating a new method of classifying
and finding of eBay inventory using faceted navigation. While
we had performed alpha tests of this experience, eBay Express
was the first broad-scale implementation of this system.
Elements of this finding experience was later applied to
the main eBay.com finding experience.
Home Page
"puma shoes" search step
1
"puma shoes" search step
2 (refine to Men's shoes)
"puma shoes" search step
3 (clicked "More choices" for Color refinement)
"puma shoes" search step
4 (choosing multiple colors)
"puma shoes" search step
5 (applying color refinement)
"puma shoes" search
step 6 (view item)
"prince of persia
video game" search step 1
"prince of persia video
game" search step 2
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