Feedback on first test

[daveloodts]

I tried WooStarter and have the following feedback:

• the theme doesn't look like an e-commerce store, more like website with "some" baked-in e-commerce functionalities. That's not the way how we can compete with Shopify, looking like a regular website.
• most recognizable of an e-commerce shop: the header. I would rather see "real" e-commerce headers, like a seperate navigation for product categories; and some navigations on the top-header (yes, multiple navigations), and a search field. The difficulty: what about seperate navigations on mobile?
• the single product page is rather a copy of a classic single product page. I guess Woostarter will be a highlighted FSE theme, so i guess it should highlight the capabilities of FSE, and not copying the classic layout. Certainly if we look at the mobile approach, on classic the title is always below the image. In you compare this with real-life e-commerce sites (or the bigger ones), it's hardly the case. It's mostly first breadcrumb, then title, then image. With FSE it's very easy to do this; it should be hightlighted and really be designed with mobile-first approach
• i know WooStarter is a starters-theme, but doesn't mean i can not be attractive. I'm not that overwhelmed after my first try.

I don't know if there are any figma or graphic frameworks of Woostarter, but happy to advice here.

[MaggieCabrera]

I'm not sure if the figma is public to see or not, but try the link: Gum9XNWccPKfkVRFk1Whsp-fi-4550_13327

Also I just finished today the PR for the single product page, you might want to check it out: #97

I am very interested in making alternatives to the "classic layout" that you mention. There have been other explorations and if time allows, I would like to include them at the very least as patterns, either on the theme or directly on the woo plugin.

Thanks for your feedback! /cc @beafialho and @ellenbauer for visibility

[MaggieCabrera]

Wait, the link was obscured, it's https://www.figma.com/file/Gum9XNWccPKfkVRFk1Whsp/?node-id=4550-13327

[daveloodts]

Thanks, i requested access to the Figma file.

You mention your interest about making alternatives to the "classic layout".
That's the thing i wanted to highlight: a FSE theme with kinda exactly the same single product page layout out of the box. It should not be "an alternavtive" or "an option". If Automattic really wants to promote FSE-solutions (which i guess Matt really really wants), don't just copy/paste classic templates. The reverse case must be true: the classic single product template must be "the alternative".