Re:Whitespace killed an enterprise app
by nafey on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @11:58AM
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Not to forget amazon.com. I am actually in awe of their boldness in completely ignoring UI design trends.
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Amazon has purposefully broken their search and navigation, but probably in an anti-consumer metric-driven way instead of designer-driven.
Re:Whitespace killed an enterprise app
by nerpderp82 on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @11:00PM
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Ebay is the pinnacle of broken search and navigation! They should be winning awards, industry accolades, Webbies, the works!
Re:Whitespace killed an enterprise app
by maxxxxx on Thursday February 14, 2019 @08:56AM
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I find eBay search more predictable than amazon. When I use amazon I feel that they show to me what they think I should get instead of what I want.
Re:Whitespace killed an enterprise app
by nerpderp82 on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:43PM
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Ebay removed substring search years ago, and this basically collapsed a whole bunch of industries that were using Ebay as their marketplace. Think hundreds of thousands of similar part numbers. This is why you see pages of part numbers blasted over the listing details.
Ebay's one job is to connect buyers and sellers and they fail miserably at that.
Not even a local minimum, a global minimum. Not a platform, a gated swamp.
Re:Whitespace killed an enterprise app
by sonnyblarney on Thursday February 14, 2019 @08:36AM
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Yes, both Amazon and EBay are bad examples.
They are old-school because they are lazy about it, not because something is already optimized.
Whenever I hear about how great a Amazon is as a company, I just do a single search and am dumbfounded.
Example:
If you type the name of a product - even when it is in their catalogue - it may not come up.
Search for 'mousr' on Amazon and you only see PC mouses.
The only way you can get to the mousr product is by typing the company name.
It's ridiculous.
Tip of the iceberg.
Re:Whitespace killed an enterprise app
by darpa_escapee on Thursday February 14, 2019 @12:16PM
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I can sort by price on eBay. On Amazon, I have to jump through a bunch of hoops to finally be able to sort by price, and the results I get are far from exhaustive.
I find eBay search pretty fine for my purposes. They could allow for more fine-gained structured descriptions, though.
Amazon search is in comparison much more... approximate.
Re:Whitespace killed an enterprise app
by degenerate on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @01:12PM
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I think that has a lot to do with Bezos saying "no" when it matters, like Jobs did at Apple.
Amazon's interface is pretty bad, though, especially in the video and kindle areas. I know I'm constantly frustrated using the site, and as far as I can tell, they don't appear to be very interested in reducing user's pain.