We’re talking to Elisa, bol’s very first UX Research Lead. With us, she shares stories about her journey, her future goals, ánd Continuous Interviewing – a successfully implemented program that now empowers several of bol’s product teams to regularly connect with their shoppers.
Leading the way in UX research: “This role was completely mine to shape”At Bol, we have observed a significant increase in engagement and conversion rates since implementing a personalized product feed, prominently featured on customers' homepages as "Top deals for you". Building on this success, we have extended the feed to also include "Top picks for you," and "New for you". These personalized feed systems curate the most relevant items for each customer's homepage using a combination of their recent and historical item interactions.
How we built near real-time “X for you” recommender systems at BolIf you’re performing web requests with Spring Boot’s WebClient you perhaps, just like us, read that defining the URL of your request should be done using a URI builder
Avoiding memory leaks with Spring Boot WebClientIn this blogpost we want to share our experience, the take-aways and the sessions you should watch of the recent GraphQLConf’23 in the San Francisco Bay Area this Sept’23.
GraphQLConf’23In this blog post, we will share how we reduced the processing time of our streaming application running on dataflow named XCATS.
Boosting Dataflow Efficiency: How We Reduced Processing Time from 1 Day to 30 Minutes in DataflowIn a series of videos, we would like to showcase how Data Science is helping us at bol, our partners, and our customers. Hear the way the DS craft is utilized within the company in various parts of the company by the corresponding product teams/owner themselves! They know best the impact and the improvements of incorporating the discipline in their own products.
Data Science at bol.com - video seriesAs manager Tech Community Training & Onboarding, Michaela leads a full-fledged team of community builders at bol, organising dozens of successful events annually. With us, she shares the pitfalls, challenges, and triumphs she has encountered over the past five years.
The success of the bol tech communityThe COVID-19 pandemic has affected millions of people around the world and in very different ways. While governments and health organisations seek to find solutions to this global humanitarian crisis, online retailers have been put to the test of how well they can serve their customers’ needs during these challenging times. Being part of bol.com’s Forecasting Team brought these challenges closer to home, and not only because of the working from home situation.
Forecasting demand at bol.com during the COVID-19 pandemicAs a member of Team Paradise, our journey through the Purpose Hackathon 2023 was an exhilarating experience that provided valuable insights into product management and problem-solving. Over the course of four days, we engaged in a rigorous process of problem exploration, ideation, and solution-building, with a focus on making sustainable assortment more attractive to customers.
Product Management Journey at the Purpose Hackathon 2023With a growing microservice landscape, the importance of aggregation layers is also increasing. For some of these aggregation services we are trying Facebook’s GraphQL, with two of them now running on our production environment. We've found that one of the drawbacks in using GraphQL is maintenance on both domain models and GraphQL queries.
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