You know I'm a great fan of Etsy's, can roam around the site for hours and hours...
PicClick, also working with eBay, now introduced a new way to browse through all the handmade items Etsy offers. It is way more visual and less text. You can view all the posted articles, or look trough them by category.
According to PicClick, people can sift through content a lot quicker on the web if you use visuals in stead of text. Totally agree, although looking at a huge amount of pictures also gets boring after a while (but text even more).
The PicClick Etsy looks like this:
Can imagine that a lot of other sites are going to be inspired by this new way of browsing. Who needs all the text websites offer us anyway? Ok, for a news oriented website text might be really necessary, although you see even them moving to more image and video content... As far as Etsy goes, it enhances the user experience a lot. Maybe the search results will look like this too in the future.
One disadvantage: there is still a lot of junk items in the overview. What would really be great is if the editors, or specific groups (maybe my own?), would be able to feature stuff up on a tool/page like this...
Spotted articles inspiring me to feature this at Creativity-Online.com and Mashable.com.
Wow, i go away for a few days and you have a whole new shiney website! Very nice!
I like the new image browsing idea on Etsy but i worry it could hinder sellers who arent so good at taking eye catching imagery/photos. Obviously the most eye catching images will get more attention whether or not the actual product is any good...
Posted by: Lianne | February 23, 2010 at 07:36 PM
Thanks! Sorry I haven't got around to blogging much lately... but am happy to be back, full of inspiration. Feel free to drop me yours anytime!
Agree with your view on the eye catching images, this would have to be a new focus for sellers but can be a challenge. Also the list is already quite cluttered and there are many items listed several times - some flaws still... everything can always be improved.
Posted by: Eline | February 23, 2010 at 09:29 PM
Don't know what is wrong what is rite but i know that every one has there own point of view and same goes to this one
Posted by: company logo design | August 02, 2010 at 10:15 AM