About Us: Sean a.k.a. sean11
Sean works on the Product Team, developing new site features. Right now he's focusing on the shopping experience. As many of his colleagues point out, Sean has an absolute passion for user experience, product management and design. Perhaps even more impressively, he can clearly explain dry computer-y …
Tech Update: Bookmark and Share
UPDATE 11/5/09: Sharing is back! Look for our better, stronger, faster share module on item listing pages, shop pages and public favorites pages. With it you can easily share Etsy pages on Facebook, Twitter, Kaboodle, Tumblr or StumbleUpon. UPDATE 10/27/09: This feature has been disabled temporarily. Learn more …
Tech Updates: Etsy Shopper Survey Results & Payment Enhancements
A big thank-you to everyone who took our brief Shopper Survey! We've been working on a number of important payments-related enhancements and your feedback is critical. These surveys are a fast and efficient way to get structured feedback from many of you; they complement our usability testing, traffic …
Etsy Shopper Survey
Attention Shoppers! We want to make the shopping experience better on Etsy and we need your help. We value your input and would love to gain some insight into your experience of Etsy's current checkout process, how you find what you want to buy, and how you prefer to pay for your purchases. If you've ever …
Tech Updates: Freshening Up the Front Page
We're excited to announce that enhancements to the front page are now live! We've freshened things up a bit and rearranged some things but no major functionality has changed. The enhancements were mentioned recently in CEO Maria Thomas's article. What's new? Categories are now higher up on the left side of …
Tech Updates: Tell a Friend
Now it's easier than ever to spread the word about cool items you find on Etsy. When you find an item that you can't resist sharing with friends, make sure you're signed in to Etsy and then click the 'Tell a friend' link under 'page tools' on the right of any listing page. You'll be taken to a form that looks like this …
Tech Updates: Favorites in Your Shopping Cart
Attention shoppers! We heart hearts, so as mentioned in CEO Maria Thomas's article last week, we've decided to share the love in a very important corner of the site: checkout. Now, as you begin the checkout process, you can dip into your Favorites and add them to your Cart. After signing in, look right below your …
Tech Updates: Bringing Favorites to the Forefront
You may have noticed some small changes to Etsy's header (also known as the global navigation) at the top of every page. As mentioned in CEO Maria Thomas's article yesterday, we've been making some adjustments: The link for Alchemy, the space on Etsy where buyers can post requests for custom items, has been …
Etsy Finds: Mini-Comics!
Sean Flannagan, aka sean11, is a new hire to the Etsy product team. Welcome, Sean! I've had a love affair with independent comics since grade school, when my mother took away my prized collection of Robert Crumb books and consequently made weird comic art even more desirable. These days I enjoy hunting for the …
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