eBay Neighborhoods

A unique, serendiptious shopping experience that ties peoples' shared passions

Description
eBay has unique, rich content throughout the site, but it is not connected in any meaningful way. Consequently, users are not unaware that the content exists and unable to find relevant people, information and products. eBay Neighborhoods is a groundbreaking experience on eBay that ties together authentic content and personalities with a unique, serendipitous shopping experience. The vision of the project is to enable users who have similar interests and needs to predictably find relevant people, content and products... and contribute to the community, while pushing the business need to increase the time that our users spend on eBay.
Role
This was one of my first projects coming into eBay, where I paired up with a lead interaction designer to help with the final stages of design. My main role was to close the loop on various interaction details on the individual neighborhood pages, and help identify the integration points for Neighborhoods within the eBay search experience. The most challenging component of the project was that it was operating under agile mode, and the product development team was off-shore.
Duration
2.5 months