MistyLaraCarrara opened this issue on Nov 16, 2012 · 27 posts
monkeycloud posted Fri, 16 November 2012 at 10:47 AM
I think it's a problem that the filters are apparently arranged as hierarchically as they are?
It's more of a menu / sub-menu selection system than a filter sytem.
That's why, I think, what they're ending up with, in the reorganisation, isn't necessarily better than the previous arrangement, IMHO.
It's all kind of drill down menu flow, with very channelled choices.
When it should be more of a matrix of checkboxes, of parallel, add-able / remove-able filters, which could be combined in any which way... each just appending a clause to the select query.
You can't filter on a specific type of clothing for a specific figure, at present, because there isn't a figure selection under the clothing category... is there?
The more guided menu system is okay in principle, I think.
But for it to really work well, each sub menu needs to dynamically contain all the applicable parent / sibling categories, and the child categories therein.
Complicated to build that (because of that "applicable" word in my last sentence)... which is why most shopping sites use the checkbox filter model.
;-)