[Sigia-l] Calling for examples: clothing retailers

[tOM Trottier]

On Friday, June 09, 2006 at 10:48,
Brett Taylor <btaylor at roundarch.com> wrote:

> I would think it could be pushed a bit as Donna stated below and
> probably wouldn't work if you had 10,000s of items, but for a specialty
> store, this works for me and have seen others do the same type of
> experience. 

Which site are you talking about?

tOM
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donna M. Fritzsche [mailto:donnamarie at amichi.info] 
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 10:30 AM
> To: Brett Taylor; Davezilla; Subir Kumedan
> Cc: sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] Calling for examples: clothing retailers
> 
> I'm with Brett on this one.  I don't buy many items online - yet due to
> the quality of the presentation, clarity of the photographs, and quality
> of the products - I am tempted to buy items from this company.
> 
> Some of the intial interactions are choppy and their product labeling is
> confusing, but overall, I like the experience.
> 
> Check out how they handle "add a unique shipping address" - very smooth.
> 
> Donna
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 07:21:30 -0500, Brett Taylor wrote
> > I wouldn't blankly say it's not how people shop. I found it to be 
> > pretty slick and why not present ways to do things differently?
> > 
> > It's funny how you would say that when a designer presents something 
> > that is different than what is expected he is on an ego trip
> > 
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> > Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 6:45 PM
> > To: Subir Kumedan
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> > Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Calling for examples: clothing retailers
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> > On 6/8/06, Subir Kumedan <alwaysoutbound at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Not just clothing per se - this is the slickest online shopping 
> > > experience i've seen so far
> > 
> > Really? I find that horizontal scrolling to find anything to be 
> > extremely annoying and not how people shop. It seemed more like a 
> > Flash designer's ego trip than a shopping experience.
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