Building a Consumer Insights Function at Etsy

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Building a Consumer

Insights Function at Etsy Roxie Karpen

Manager, Consumer Insights at Etsy

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Toronto London Dublin Melbourne Berlin Paris

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29 Million Active

Listings

$1.93 Billion in Sales

FY 2014

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User Experience

Consumer Insights

Data

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Collaborative Analysis

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Formative

usability testing

Ethnographic

research

Participatory design Card sorting

Focus groups

Eye tracking

Surveys

Individual

interviews

A/B Testing

Analytics

Diary studies

Customer panels

User research methods

Summative

usability testing

Data Analysts UX Research

Consumer Insights

Research Methods

Research +

Etsy Values

“Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see

you do it, they will want to come back and see you do it again, and they will want to bring

others and show them how well you do what you do.”

- Walt Disney

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Athens, Greece

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19.8 Million Active

Buyers

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Birmingham, England,

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Wroclaw, Poland

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New York, NY

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