Catalog Icon Overlay for Tracking Items Across Retailer Lists
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Solution Overview
Problem
Customers face difficulties in managing shopping lists across multiple retailers in online systems, requiring frequent switching between lists and losing track of added items due to differences in availability and pricing.
Innovation Solution
A scrollable listing of icons is displayed, each associated with a catalog, allowing access to items and indicating items added from those catalogs, with the listing remaining fixed during page scrolling and updating item indications upon selection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If customers switch between shopping lists for multiple retailers to manage items, then they can access different retailer catalogs, but they lose track of added items and experience cumbersome navigation
Solution Approach 1:
The interface is segmented into distinct functional areas: a persistent navigation element displaying multiple retailer icons, and separate content areas for each retailer's catalog. This segmentation allows users to access multiple catalogs without losing their place, as each retailer's items are displayed in dedicated sections while the navigation remains constant.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-loading and displaying indicators of items added to shopping lists for multiple retailers simultaneously. This allows users to see at a glance which items have been added to which retailer's list before actually navigating to that retailer's catalog, preventing the need to switch lists to check status.
2Adaptability or versatility
If customers access home page and search for retailers to add items to multiple shopping lists, then they can reach different retailer catalogs, but they repeat the process for each retailer and lose time
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple retailer catalogs and shopping list interfaces are merged into a single unified view. The interface combines navigation elements for multiple retailers with their respective catalog displays and shopping list indicators in one screen, eliminating the need to repeatedly navigate to the home page and search for retailers.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified interface serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as a navigation hub for multiple retailers, displays catalog items from different retailers, shows shopping list status for each retailer, and enables adding items to any retailer's list without leaving the current screen. This multi-functionality resolves the time-loss issue by consolidating what previously required multiple separate actions.
3Loss of information
If customers switch between shopping lists to track added items, then they can see what has been added, but the process is cumbersome and difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The interface provides immediate visual feedback by displaying indicators next to each retailer icon showing the status of added items. When items are added to a shopping list, the interface updates the display to reflect this change, allowing users to track added items without switching lists. This feedback mechanism makes tracking information both easy and intuitive.
Data Source
AI summary
A scrollable listing of icons associated with catalogs is displayed, in which the scrollable listing of icons is overlaid onto a page when the page is scrolled, each icon is associated with a catalog, and each icon is displayed with an indication of a set of items selected from a corresponding catalog. Status information may be displayed with one or more of the icons. In response to a user selection of an icon from the scrollable listing of icons, the page is updated to include items included in a catalog associated with the selected icon. In response to a user selection to add an item from the page including the items, the indication displayed with the selected icon in the scrollable listing of icons is updated to indicate the added item.