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In response to this thread about how hard it is to see content on the campers shoe site: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4032486 http://news.ycombinator.com
by cookingrobot 14y ago
In response to this thread about how hard it is to see content on the campers shoe site: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4032486 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4032486
We're experimenting with UI for browsing huge sets of options like shoes. What do you think? Refreshing or overwhelming?
- cookingrobot 14y agoAlso please excuse the 5 second loading time.. it's still a prototype.
- benblodgett 14y agoThrowing 500 error..
- cookingrobot 14y agoThanks Ben - looking into this, and it should be up again now.
- cookingrobot 14y agoA direct link to the prototype: http://www.shopobot.com/shop http://www.shopobot.com/shop big queries here.. takes a bit to load.
- ericingram 14y agoI love the concept and execution. Can't see the demo but the blog speaks for it.
- cookingrobot 14y agoThanks Eric. We'll work on performance and caching of these big queries in our next update so it can handle the spike in traffic. (this proof of concept was mainly meant for 1:1 user testing, and looks like we still have some query issues to sort out)
- lrem 14y agoI think: noscript unfriendly. Then, it seems crowded. But that's what physical shops are like. Not sure if it's good or not.
- cookingrobot 14y agoThanks for the feedback! Since we were experimenting with density here, it is fairly extreme. The verdict is out on whether the extra density is valuable when user are in real shopping scenarios.. That's what we'll be testing with different categories and tweaks.
- grabastic 14y agoI love it. No friction.
- cookingrobot 14y agoThanks! Did you try it with a trackpad/touch or mouse? Did you discover left/right scrolling?
- grabastic 14y agoyep. on macbook pro side scrolling was great... although i imagine that might be a bit unpleasant on less advanced trackpads or desktops.
- x1 14y agoScrollbars really need work. Seems like a clunky way to navigate Basically you are showing just the pure output of data, which is great, but you need to incorporate a way for users to choose to filter this data. Usecase: I'm trying to decide between two shoes, one is on the top of the page, the other is near the bottom and there is a huge mess of noise between those two items of interest. Maybe put in an area to drag shoes of interest into, not necessarily a shopping cart. This way you can weed through the data and compare the most interesting items before making a purchase.
- funthree 14y agoI think the thumbnails are too small. They should be the size of the larger pic, and the larger pic should be as wide as my browser window, ideally.
- switch007 14y agoVertical scrolling of the page is interrupted by the horizontal scrolling of each row of shoes. I consider that broken. How about having big left and right button either end of each row?