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Building a Device Lab: Intro
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Lara Hogan
June 20, 2014
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Transcript
Building a Device Lab Destiny Montague and Lara Swanson co-LAB-orators
at Etsy Slides and links: laraswanson.com/devicelab/
Reminder: have your visitor’s device data ready!
What is Etsy? (and who are we?)
Engineering Teams at Etsy • Feature Teams • Listing page
• Seller tools • Checkout
Engineering Teams at Etsy • Feature Teams • Listing page
• Seller tools • Checkout • Infrastructure Teams • Performance • Dev tools • Security
Why’d we build a device lab?
traffic to Etsy from mobile web+apps: > 50%
How many times have we built a device lab?
v1: Gray Cabinet v2: Bookshelves v3: Leaning Tower Our device
lab’s history
Our device lab by the numbers • 36 devices •
8 operating systems • 45 average users/month • 4 median checkouts/device • 8 devices retired this year, 12 new purchased v3: Leaning Tower
a note about privilege
what works for us may not work for you
What we’ll cover today 1. Choosing Devices (10 min) 2.
Power (20 min) 3. Device Setup (10 min) 4. Setting Up Testing (5 min) 5. Networking, RFID Readers (15 min) 6. User Experience & Organization (15 min)