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| | | Author: | Brickadeer  | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2022 02:06 | | Subject: | Minifig Category Tree: Split SW Ep. 4/5/6 | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | | For: | Catalog Associate | | Status: | Open | |
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| Hi,
please split the category "Minifigures: Star Wars Episode 4/5/6" into three separate
categories:
Star Wars Episode 4
Star Wars Episode 5
Star Wars Episode 6
That's how it already works for episodes 1 - 3 and 7 - 9.
The category "Minifigures: Star Wars Episode 4/5/6" includes *by far* the biggest
selection of minifigures in the whole category tree (currently 499).
Since the whole point of separate categories is to increase the handibility of
the interface and thus to create a positive user experience, the current organization
is besides the point.
That becomes especially true if you look e.g. at the category "Pirates I", which
inculdes 4 sub-categories, which include a total of 22 minifigures. Thus, user
navigation becomes unnecessarily complicated by increasing the number of total
objects in the category tree.
That really doesn't make any sense at all.
Please. Look. Think. Change. Thanks!
Best regards,
Brickadeer
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| | | | | Author: | randyf | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2022 10:55 | | Subject: | Re: Minifig Category Tree: Split SW Ep. 4/5/6 | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | |
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| In Catalog Requests, Brickadeer writes:
| | Hi,
please split the category "Minifigures: Star Wars Episode 4/5/6" into three separate
categories:
Star Wars Episode 4
Star Wars Episode 5
Star Wars Episode 6
That's how it already works for episodes 1 - 3 and 7 - 9.
The category "Minifigures: Star Wars Episode 4/5/6" includes *by far* the biggest
selection of minifigures in the whole category tree (currently 499).
Since the whole point of separate categories is to increase the handibility of
the interface and thus to create a positive user experience, the current organization
is besides the point.
That becomes especially true if you look e.g. at the category "Pirates I", which
inculdes 4 sub-categories, which include a total of 22 minifigures. Thus, user
navigation becomes unnecessarily complicated by increasing the number of total
objects in the category tree.
That really doesn't make any sense at all.
Please. Look. Think. Change. Thanks!
Best regards,
Brickadeer
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I was actually looking at this about two months ago due to some change requests.
My personal thinking was that Episode 1-3 and Episode 7-9 need to be combined
like Episode 4-6 instead of going the other way. In that scenario, it would be
easy for us admins to get it worked out, and it would cut down on the huge category
list that exists in the Star Wars area. But having to separate Episode 4-6 would
need a *lot* of help from a lot of other people besides the admins, because none
of us are Star Wars experts. This would include splitting up all sets, all minifigures,
all gear items, all books, etc., etc. The amount of work is huge. We obviously
won't be doing anything about this in any way without a lot of feedback from
the users, so don't expect to see anything happen in this area for some time.
Cheers,
Randy
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| | | | | | | Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2022 12:25 | | Subject: | Re: Minifig Category Tree: Split SW Ep. 4/5/6 | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | |
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| In Catalog Requests, randyf writes:
| | In Catalog Requests, Brickadeer writes:
| | Hi,
please split the category "Minifigures: Star Wars Episode 4/5/6" into three separate
categories:
Star Wars Episode 4
Star Wars Episode 5
Star Wars Episode 6
That's how it already works for episodes 1 - 3 and 7 - 9.
The category "Minifigures: Star Wars Episode 4/5/6" includes *by far* the biggest
selection of minifigures in the whole category tree (currently 499).
Since the whole point of separate categories is to increase the handibility of
the interface and thus to create a positive user experience, the current organization
is besides the point.
That becomes especially true if you look e.g. at the category "Pirates I", which
inculdes 4 sub-categories, which include a total of 22 minifigures. Thus, user
navigation becomes unnecessarily complicated by increasing the number of total
objects in the category tree.
That really doesn't make any sense at all.
Please. Look. Think. Change. Thanks!
Best regards,
Brickadeer
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I was actually looking at this about two months ago due to some change requests.
My personal thinking was that Episode 1-3 and Episode 7-9 need to be combined
like Episode 4-6 instead of going the other way. In that scenario, it would be
easy for us admins to get it worked out, and it would cut down on the huge category
list that exists in the Star Wars area. But having to separate Episode 4-6 would
need a *lot* of help from a lot of other people besides the admins, because none
of us are Star Wars experts. This would include splitting up all sets, all minifigures,
all gear items, all books, etc., etc. The amount of work is huge. We obviously
won't be doing anything about this in any way without a lot of feedback from
the users, so don't expect to see anything happen in this area for some time.
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+1
Solid thinking, Randy.
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