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 Author: brox999 View Messages Posted By brox999
 Posted: Feb 23, 2025 15:07
 Subject: New menu design - Not ideal, menu sequence
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brox999 (4243)

Location:  New Zealand, Bay of Plenty
Member Since Contact Type Status
Mar 22, 2005 Member Does Not Allow Contact Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store: Broxy's Bricks
Not a real fan of the new menu layout as in the above example I NEVER use Send
Invoice, Drive through and notify members from the store menu, I do however constantly
use My inventory and mass upload and to get to those on the menu you have to
click on the menu then scroll down or have the screen reduced to be able to see
them which makes reading glasses even more necessary, how did you decide what
do do where? I wonder if it was based on anysort of analysis of which menu items
were actually used by store owners.

Regards
Andrew Broxholme
 
 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
 Posted: Feb 23, 2025 16:22
 Subject: Re: New menu design - Not ideal, menu sequence
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1001bricks (55712)

Location:  France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
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In Suggestions, brox999 writes:
  Not a real fan of the new menu layout as in the above example I NEVER use Send
Invoice, Drive through and notify members

Same.

But the problem is:

* BrickLink didn't ask anyone (we know) what would ideally be shown in menu,

* if they'd ask in Forum they would poll 1% of BrickLink members who are
7/24 on BrickLink, and are absolutely not representative of 'normal users',

* so they must have decided on stats, I guess and a few Admins,

* and in the end... any ideal configuration would pose a problem to some.

I'm not sure there's a solution.
A configurable menu would be the perfection though.
 Author: SylvainLS View Messages Posted By SylvainLS
 Posted: Feb 23, 2025 16:28
 Subject: Re: New menu design - Not ideal, menu sequence
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SylvainLS (52)

Location:  France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
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In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
  In Suggestions, brox999 writes:
  Not a real fan of the new menu layout as in the above example I NEVER use Send
Invoice, Drive through and notify members

Same.

But the problem is:

* BrickLink didn't ask anyone (we know) what would ideally be shown in menu,

A few of us were shown the navbar “early”…


  * if they'd ask in Forum they would poll 1% of BrickLink members who are
7/24 on BrickLink, and are absolutely not representative of 'normal users',

…and we told them things (colour! missing entries, order of the entries…).


  * so they must have decided on stats, I guess

IIRC, they don’t have stats… 🤷‍♂️


   and a few Admins,

* and in the end... any ideal configuration would pose a problem to some.

I'm not sure there's a solution.
A configurable menu would be the perfection though.

Something we asked too.
 Author: jennnifer View Messages Posted By jennnifer
 Posted: Feb 23, 2025 22:17
 Subject: Re: New menu design - Not ideal, menu sequence
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jennnifer (3696)

Location:  USA, Illinois
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Sep 8, 2009 Contact Member Seller
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In Suggestions, brox999 writes:
  Not a real fan of the new menu layout as in the above example I NEVER use Send
Invoice, Drive through and notify members from the store menu, I do however constantly
use My inventory and mass upload and to get to those on the menu you have to
click on the menu then scroll down or have the screen reduced to be able to see
them which makes reading glasses even more necessary, how did you decide what
do do where? I wonder if it was based on anysort of analysis of which menu items
were actually used by store owners.

Regards
Andrew Broxholme

The analysis appeared to consist of: How can we make the menu flexible and make
the Bricklink Designer Program always findable.

The results, as I see them, seemed to center around solving design issues while
ignoring user preferences, efficiency, accessibility, and site function.

~Jen