What's a great name for this new Web/e-commerce feature?
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ETpro (
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April 29th, 2010
I’m developing a new gizmo for an eCommerce store. It’s for stores where there are lots and lots of items under a given category. Let’s say it is a widget store, and there are 180 different blue widgets to choose from. I break the Blue Widgets section up into paginated pages of 30, so there are 6 full pages of them to look at.
As a user pages through this collection, it may be tough to remember exactly where each item they liked was. What I want to do is, besides showing a thumbnail of each widget and providing brief information, a link to a full item-info page, pricing and an order button for each; is give the user a checkbox that will let them add selectred item/s to a collection we might call “I Like These” that will grow in the right column as they check various checkboxes.
So if they pick one blue widget on page one, it shows up with its thumbnail and all its info and order button over in the right column. Now when they check a second box on page three, the right column collection grows to show that additional blue widget, and so forth.
What is a great name for this feature that, if I use it as a label right in front of each checkbox, will instantly tell a new visitor what the checkbox does? It’s a type of favorites or bookmark, but those words already have meanings that are slightly different.
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Let Me Think About It
I Want to Think About This One
@marinelife Thanks. If you have an inspiration, please share it.
@ETpro Those were my suggestions. When I am shopping, I want to think about things and ponder what I might buy.
wishlist, it’s used already by some online sellers…
@marinelife Oh I see. Yes, that does make sense. I need it to be short. Maybe “Think about this one.”
@njnyjobs Wish-list implies something you might be thinking about for a future purchase, doesn’t it? This is more often for immediate purchase. It’s rather like pulling several items off the shelves in a brick-and-mortar store and considering each before putting on in your shopping cart and the rest back where they belong.
My Hrmmm was intended as such, but i think you wrote the answer yourself…
Considering.
@ETpro so basically, you just want a nice catchy name or term for a function similar to “Add to Cart” that collects all the stuff your interested in reviewing/comparing/buying. . . .
Are you giving any credit for the term you use?
@rebbel Thanks. I am “considering” that. :-)
@njnyjobs Absolutely I will credit any suggestion that I use. “Add to Cart” is a perfect example of the sort of pithy, easily understood trope I am looking for. But of course, it pretty much implies you plan to actually buy the item, so I do not want to use it. I am looking for a phrase that carries a lower level of commitment than that.
“Consider This” or “Review Later”
@njnyjobs Thanks. Maybe “Review these” as I want to keep the sense of immediacy.
I think i got it (thanks too Apple and @njnyjobs)….: iReview
@rebbel That’s a catchy one. Thanks., But does Apple have a proprietary claim to it? I will have to check.
@anartist Ha! Great idea to sidestep copyright issues. Thanks.
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