Perhaps not related to the UX, but the “find it online” experience is reliably unreliable, at least for a few wines I’ve looked at today. Zero of my clicks resulted in the correct wine at a retailer.
As an example, I was looking up the Fevre 1er Montmains 2020, and all of the clicks to external sites resulted in a wine from a different wine-maker. It’s a great way to learn about other “Montmains,” though!
Same problem with…
A few Bordeaux wines seemed to link fine. To be honest, I rarely use the feature because Wine-Searcher is so excellent, especially with the CT integration, but I thought someone might want to know.
just changed a bit the algorithm to handle that use case, thanks for sharing! Sometimes it has undesired side effects on other searches as too much tolerance in typo can bring lots of homonyms. We’ll keep finetuning
This is a wine searcher API call where we pass through lot of wine information to retrieve retailers form them. We really need to have perfectly accurate results and more user centered. We are starting the conversation with them to ensure perfect match. Thank you for sharing those use cases.
Sounds great. Given the lack of latency on the reader end between looking at the article and going to the notes, having the notes fully indexed before the articles go live seems like the right play to me.
The new UI looks good. One thing I would like to be able to do is see all producers covered in a given article - I could do this on the previous site, but on the new version it only shows the top few
Wow! It took me a long time to recover my user profile, but I’m back!
Yes, I agree, not seeing prices annoys me too. I’ve already mentioned to Jacobo and it’s good that you also mention it.
One thing about the old UX I miss was being able to read the body text of a review by “mousing over” the name instead of clicking on the wine itself. It saved a lot of time in larger tasting articles.
@JacoboF I’d imagine you already know, but the biggest issue is that you do a bunch of filtering on the search page, click into a wine and click back and the search is gone. Ideally the search would update the URL so that you could copy and paste a search to someone else, but at the very least it needs to cache and reload the latest search.
If Wine Advocate scores are integrated into CellarTracker that will justify my annual subscription for sure. I prefer your reviews William to the gnomic and inscrutable prose of BH. But its so cumbersome to log into WA and do a separate wine search that I never do it.
Loved your 21’ 20’ Burgundy vintage review by the way.
I’m with @Andrew_K on this. I run a website-based business and I think 1850s Prussian general and early internet-adopter Helmuth Von Moltke had it right:
“No new website design survives contact with the customer”
Iteration is the way to a robust site.
No matter how hard we work to interview, listen and develop new features, once you let something out into the wild interwebs, there will be bugs to fix, moles to whack and squeaky wheels to oil.
Some of the feedback will be run-of-the-mill grousing (though that would NEVER happen here…)
But a lot is important guidance on what’s broke and what our users really want. The squeaky wheels are painful to hear, but we ignore them at our peril.
Credit to @William_Kelley and @JacoboF for listening to the specific feedback WBers have posted here. I’d give the developers a couple months.
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