Walmart.com
walmart.com
walmart.com
Walmart just went live with a massive redesign. The person driving the effort is Dan Makoski of Moto X and Project Ara fame.
I have a bit of an inside track on it considering I've known Dan from his Microsoft days. The design is intended to be much more needs-focused and less cluttered, though I've yet to actually give the site a try.
(I'm not affiliated with Walmart by any means)
"Walmart launched a whole redesign of their site"
I signed in really quick, and my main original peeve with Walmart's site, the frustration of getting to my personal lists, is gone. It's very easy to find now, right where I expected it to be. So big +1 there.
On the other hand, I removed something from a list, and it slid away. And then I realized later it was still on the list. In actually, it had slid away to a confirm removal option, that I wasn't expecting (Amazon removes on one click but allows you to undo it), but since I navigated away instead of clicking Remove a second time, it didn't remove it. I found this unintuitive.
I'll bring Dan M over to monitor the feedback.
I predict the title will be changed, though. Here's the original title for context: Walmart.com
- Feels a little _too_ mobile. Menu on left requires a click and should ideally be a hover. I had to check to make sure I wasn't on some mobile site as it looks like the mobile version just enlarged.
- Search bar touches the top of the page. Needs some gap above it.
- Navigation even on top right requires far too many clicks for basic functionality (sign-in, etc). Desktop should take advantage of hover.
- Was clicking around products and the experience feels a bit jarring. The page loads and menu color changes are sudden and feel like a full page refresh. I'm sure it'll get better over time but just mentioning.
Nice redesign overall! Looks more like Amazon's latest refreshes.
- hamburger menu on desktop, why?
- not 100% recognizable icons in the upper right (requiring a hover)
- Large product images for categories with tiny text
On the plus side, search and search results are well done.
Why does nearly every ecommerce site put product reviews at bottom of the product page? I'll never understand it.
I'm seeing this everywhere, probably because the hamburger is now the universal symbol for a menu.
Most big sites that use CDNs do that.
> which means that it doesn't work with uMatrix
It only takes a few seconds to permanently whitelist those domains (wal.co and walmartimages.com) in uMatrix.