March 2, 2012 - Comments Off on Shipping Options setup

Shipping Options setup

"Shipping" was the number-one search term in our Help System.  Our e-commerce Shipping Options had been built upon for years, with no consistent design. Valuable new features were hidden among deprecated options, their natures obscured with ad hoc names and descriptions. As part of our Shipping cleanup, we redid the setup options.

Old Shipping Module List marked up for revision

This is the graphic I gave the developers, showing exactly what gets changed, along with new names and descriptions.

  • The red columns are not useful to our clients, and are slated for removal.
  • The green boxes show the new ordering. The new menu layout makes it clear.
  • The bubbles in the middle show the new, names and descriptions.

New Shipping Module List

Everything is simplified, and reordered for clarity. This will be wrapped in a tabbed interface that covers all shipping options (no more drop-down menus).

  • Unused modules and useless columns are removed
  • The “Enabled” icons become checkboxes, and the names now link directly to the configuration settings
  • Modules are grouped by similarity, from most to least used.

Frankly, "Custom" should go, and "Flex" and "ShipValue" might be better with descriptive names...

Published by: Philip Williamson in UX/UI

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