No retail consumer end-user has any time, patience or attention span these days, and it's getting worse.
If you can't "hook 'em" in the first 15 seconds you've lost them, they've swum off into the deep blue.
Thus, a 'Single Page' dynamically/database driven 'online store' User Experience (ie. time efficient) has to be the eCommerce way of the future, if maximizing conversion rate is the objective.
The typical '50 page reload' online shopping session almost always encountered has to be restricting sales these days.
The novelty of shopping online has warn off. No one wants to wait for the page to reload 50 times anymore.
Retail consumers want to get back to chatting on WhatsApp, watching YouTube videos, surfing porn, or back to work before their boss catches them. No one has any time whatsoever anymore.
So why make the retail consumer spend/endure any more time shopping online to buy from your store than they absolutely have to? Why not give them what they want?
Thus, I think the 'retail consumer' end-user application developer base is AIM's big opportunity for expansion/growth in the future, because it can simplify 95% of the Javascript/CSS BS.
Why should I have to know Javascript to be able to develop such an application?
I SHOULDN'T!! I should just be able to configure (not code) it, as though I've instructed the conductor on which movements to conduct the band to play in which order so as to ultimately recite the whole piece (desired application).
I think AIM is 85%-90% there now, and can see the potential for it to easily reach 95%+.
However, I think it needs a handful of additional settings/functionalities to be incorporated in order to spare the configurer/developer having to resort to Javascript/CSS in order to deliver the slick elegant non-disjointed seamless refined User Experience to the 'fish'.
Thus, the purpose of Posts which follow this (#0) Post (which will have this same Subject) is to canvass for/gauge how much interest/support there is in/for a particular setting/functionality among the forum user base.
If the level of support/interest is strong then I will formally suggest the setting/functionality in the appropriate thread as well as to 'Support', along with mention of how strong the level of support/interest was among the forum user base.
AND.. perhaps my suggestion for a new setting/functionality will be improved/evolved/refined via topic replies? Perhaps my idea for how it should work won't be the optimum?
I think this could be a good way of presenting a well thought through idea to 'Support' which could assist them in implementing the setting/functionality exactly the way users would like, if they choose to take it on board.
I won't post a lot of 'headless chicken' new topics. Rather, I will consolidate multiple new settings/functionalities ideas (individually numbered) into a once a week new topic post.
If you've made it to here, Congratulations!! you're not one of the 'fish' without patience or attention span.
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