In terms of UI things are looking good, I'd love to see some more custom style's as opposed to just bootstrap styles. I think the biggest complaint is the lack of padding. If you would add a bit more it might make things feel a bit better. ie. "width" "profile" and "size" headers on front page.
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#12If you click a button and drag the mouse it starts a rectangular selection that can select multiple buttons on the same row. (Chrome, Win 7)
Same thing in safari
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#132 things:
1. Care to post a default so it's possible to explore? Couldn't figure out a working combination. 2. When you hit an error, would be helpful if you kept the previous selection prefilled (either via AJAX request or passing along the previous selection in the URL).
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#14Found an image: http://www.tyresum.co.uk/corporate.php
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#15If I select Width then Profile at that point you can calculate (ajax callback for example) which sizes are available for that combination and grey out the ones I cant pick. At that point you could get rid of Find Best Price for Tyres completely (as the system would know there are results at that point and display them for me) (or keep it just in case). EDIT: You could also grey out the Find Best Price for Tyres until…
What I found refreshing about the site was that it did not make me wait while it determined what to do next.
As a user, once I have gone to the trouble of looking up my tyre size and entering two of the three parameters, having the site go non-interactive while options are filtered is not helpful, it is annoyingly bad design.
It is bad because instead of being done with my task in another second or two, I am given the new task of interpreting the changed state.
In particular with this site, the presentation and options are such that the filtering is useless. It there were 100 wheel diameters, then filtering might have some justification. But as a user, I want the path that gets me to the results as quickly as possible in real time.
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#16Would be nice if you could select your vehicle and it'd auto select a likely size
This is the first thing I thought about too.
I have no idea what size the tires on my car are. But I do know the make, model (and year) of my car. I'd rather enter these details into the size, and the site could tell me what tyre size is recommended, and as part of that do a search for the prices.
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#17Not really UI feedback but "clicking on the box's below" box's should be boxes
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#18Would be nice if you could select your vehicle and it'd auto select a likely size
thanks for the feedback, i have been looking into how to get a database of car/tyre sizes.
Car make / model - there's only a finite set of these. Take a look at the categories on Autotrader or something similar.
Tire Sizes - ask your local mechanic how they would find this out? There's probably a catalogue they would use.
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#191.) UI is confusing. Not immediately clear what's a button.
2.) Not UI feedback, but the data seems pretty sparse. Getting not found on relatively common sizes.
3.) I'd wager the average person has no idea about width, profile and size. You really need a way to search by make/model/year for something like this or at least a quick guide on how to read the sidewall to get the information.
4.) I'd be more interested in the type of tire (all-season, snow, sport) than the make or source website at the second step.
5.) Tires are probably not the best thing to sell via a minimally visual site. There's a reason sites like tirerack have gone to the trouble to provide tools to simulate what tire/wheel combos will look like on a specific make/model/year/color of car.
People care about what their vehicles look like, right down to the tires.
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#20Browsed with Windows Phone 7.8
I found it intuitive and easy to use. The interface reflects the the data domain it represents rather than glomming the data onto a generic shopping solution.