[Sigia-l] Calling for examples: clothing retailers

[Dwayne King]

My thoughts:

Patagonia recommendation: dead on. Easy to find products, easy to  
buy. Good background on the company and philosophy. Good use of Ajax  
- better experience instead of just showing they can use ajax.

Gap: Hate it! I no longer shop at their physical store because of  
that site. If you can't make it cross-platform, don't bother.

Shop Composition: First time I've seen this one and I don't like it  
too much. I don't like the horizontal scroll, I don't like waiting  
for Flash to do all of its neat things before showing me content.  
It's very pretty, but I'm not sold.

Transmit: I show people this all the time because it's so cool. I'm  
not sure it's that usable or that I'd model a site after it, but it  
sure is cool.


Some of this recommendation would depend on what you're selling  
though. Does it require any configuration, what's the audience and  
how much wow factor do they need, etc.

Dwayne



On Jun 8, 2006, at 3:33 PM, Subir Kumedan wrote:

> Patagonia.com looks nice, but its shopping experience on its new  
> site leaves a bit to be desired.
> Not just clothing per se - this is the slickest online shopping  
> experience i've seen so far
> http://www.shopcomposition.com
>
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> From: Skot Nelson <skot at penguinstorm.com>
> To: Karl Saynor <karl at eternitywebsites.co.uk>
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> Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2006 6:31:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Calling for examples: clothing retailers
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> On Jun-8-2006, at 5:39 AM, Karl Saynor wrote:
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>> I would appreciate it if people could give me their opinions on
>> which sites
>> they consider 'best-in-class' in terms of online clothes retailing.
>
> Patagonia http://www.patagonia.com/
>
> Panic, which sells the best FTP client on any platform (I've used
> them all), has a pretty slick T-shirt store http://www.panic.com/ 
> goods/
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