You know, I thought it might when I first started at Etsy. But what I've found is that, 99% of the time, the needs and concerns of our sellers and buyers align. Sellers want better tooling and features to better serve their customers, and their customers want better features and tools to help them find shops and items to purchase. It's pretty awesome that those things align so closely most of the time
And on the odd occasions it doesn't, we're aware of that internally and work together to navigate it. We're pretty connected with our community (and getting more and more connected with both buyers and sellers as our User Research team gets more amazing), which helps us out a lot when considering how new features and products may affect both sides of our marketplace.
I don't want to make it sound like it's always super easy or perfect, because it's not always. But hey, that's product design and development. We didn't sign up for easy!
Cameron,
http://i.imgur.com/8ZozHvN.gif :)
You know, I thought it might when I first started at Etsy. But what I've found is that, 99% of the time, the needs and concerns of our sellers and buyers align. Sellers want better tooling and features to better serve their customers, and their customers want better features and tools to help them find shops and items to purchase. It's pretty awesome that those things align so closely most of the time
And on the odd occasions it doesn't, we're aware of that internally and work together to navigate it. We're pretty connected with our community (and getting more and more connected with both buyers and sellers as our User Research team gets more amazing), which helps us out a lot when considering how new features and products may affect both sides of our marketplace.
I don't want to make it sound like it's always super easy or perfect, because it's not always. But hey, that's product design and development. We didn't sign up for easy!