{"id":48811,"date":"2022-08-03T17:57:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T14:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2022.gpec.ro\/happening\/fixing-frustrating-design-patterns-in-e-commerce\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T11:17:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T08:17:12","slug":"fixing-frustrating-design-patterns-in-e-commerce","status":"publish","type":"happening","link":"https:\/\/2022.gpec.ro\/en\/happening\/fixing-frustrating-design-patterns-in-e-commerce\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Frustrating Design Patterns in E-Commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve seen them before. Confusing and frustrating design patterns that seem to be chasing you everywhere you go, from one website to another. Perhaps it\u2019s a disabled <em>Submit<\/em> button that never communicates what&#8217;s actually wrong, or tooltips that \u2014 once opened \u2014 always cover the input field just when you need to correct a mistake. They are everywhere and they are annoying, often tossing us from one dead-end to another, in something that seems like a well-orchestrated and poorly designed mousetrap.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, we\u2019ll take a closer look at some frustrating design patterns in E-Commerce and explore better alternatives, along with plenty of examples and checklists to keep in mind when building or designing one.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll look into mega-drop-down-hover-menus, disabled <em>Continue<\/em> buttons, newsletter boxes showing on first load, draconian password requirements, unusable sliders, poor inline validation, invisible tooltips, broken filters and, of course, parallax and scrolljacking \u2014 along with identifying buses and fire hydrants.<\/p>\n<p>The insights are coming from usability tests and user research conducted by yours truly or our colleagues in the community. <strong>You\u2019ll walk away with a packed toolbox of techniques that you\u2019ll be able to apply to your projects right away<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h5>English Session | Simultaneous Translation in Romanian Available<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":48370,"menu_order":48,"template":"","product_cat":[201],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2022.gpec.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/happening\/48811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2022.gpec.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/happening"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2022.gpec.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/happening"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2022.gpec.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/happening\/48811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49112,"href":"https:\/\/2022.gpec.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/happening\/48811\/revisions\/49112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2022.gpec.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2022.gpec.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2022.gpec.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=48811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}