How We Built The Deals Tab in Swift UI

Balancing Engineering Ambition with Product Realism Introduction In July of 2023, Etsy’s App Updates team, responsible for the...

Pierre Rodgers

5 mars 2024

The AR Measuring Box: Etsy's answer to Big Tape Measure

A little while ago, Etsy introduced a new feature in its iOS app that could place Etsy sellers' artwork on a user's wall using...

Pedro Michel

18 sept. 2023

Priority Hints - What Your Browser Doesn’t Know (Yet)

As a rule, users don’t like slow web pages. For online businesses, whose success depends on keeping customers engaged through...

David Ross

25 juil. 2022

A Checklist Manifetsy

Introduction The first time I encountered it, Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto made intuitive sense to me. The book's...

Theresa Eades

19 juil. 2022

How the 2020 Mask Surge Reshaped Etsy’s Taxonomy Capabilities

On April 3, 2020, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended wearing face masks in public to combat the...

Yael Kaufman

8 févr. 2022

Improving our design system through Dark Mode

Etsy recently launched Dark Mode in our iOS and Android buyer apps. Since Dark Mode was introduced system-wide last year in iOS...

Stephanie Sharp

21 oct. 2020

How to Pick a Metric as the North Star for Algorithms to Optimize Business KPI? A Causal Inference Approach

This article draws on our published paper in KDD 2020 (Oral Presentation, Selection Rate: 5.8%, 44 out of 756) Introduction It...

Xuan Yin

2 août 2020

Chaining iOS Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Augmented Reality to Make the Magical Real

Etsy recently released a feature in our buyer-facing  iOS app that allows users to visualize wall art within their environments....

Jacob Van Order

23 juin 2020

Etsy’s experiment with immutable documentation

Introduction Writing documentation is like trying to hit a moving target. The way a system works changes constantly, so as soon...

Paul-Jean Letourneau

10 oct. 2018

Modeling User Journeys via Semantic Embeddings

Etsy is a global marketplace for unique goods. This means that as soon as an item becomes popular, it runs the risk of selling...

Nishan Subedi

12 juil. 2018

The EventHorizon Saga

This is an epic tale of EventHorizon, and how we finally got it to a happy place. EventHorizon is a tool we use to watch events...

Brad Greenlee

29 mai 2018

Culture of Quality: Measuring Code Coverage at Etsy

In the summer of 2017, Etsy created the Test Engineering Strategy Team to define, measure, and develop practices that would help...

Jeffery Campbell

15 févr. 2018