I've built what i think is a perfect solution, and I'm now considering the widespread implications. Anyone here run a medium to large website and struggle with navigating web visitors?
I would first ask customer support what the biggest struggle for users currently is.
Are there too many options in the nav bar making users overwhelmed? Maybe consolidating categories is best?
Or is it that when they click a link on the nav bar they get redirected to an inappropriate page that isn't what they thought it would lead them to? Or is it the search capabilities not giving good results? What widespread implications are you thinking of? Did you basically do a complete rewrite or UI overhaul and worried users wont like it?
Exactly this. A lot of people wont even bother scanning the drop down list of options for more than a couples seconds it seems. It would be nice to know how wide spread of an issue this is.
" What widespread implications are you thinking of? " Basically they type in where the want to go, or what they want to do, and the search bar takes them to the exact page directly. No UI, just an api.