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        "content_text": "Product case study\nProblem\nBuilder\nOverview\nOutcome\nOpen prototype\n\nCommerce · Navigation\n\nA storefront menu you can nest, preview, and save without one-by-one linking\n\nCommerce Cloud made merchants build the tree one item at a time - name it, link it, nest it. Catalog-heavy stores could not keep up, and mega menus make that worse. I designed Phase 1 of the menu builder: a listing, a two-pane editor with bulk add and nested catalog children, then desktop and mobile preview before the menu goes live.\n\nRoleLead UX/UI\n\nPlatformMaropost Commerce\n\nScopePhase 1 listing, editor, preview\n\nOutcomePrototype. Design ready\n\nOne item at a time does not scale\n\nMerchants built menu structures in the back office by hand. Create the tree, name the item, link it to a product, collection, page, or URL, then decide the hierarchy - largely one row at a time. Catalog-heavy merchants have large collection sets, brand and seasonal paths, and little time to get that hierarchy right. Broken links, empty categories, and a shallow tree were the usual cost.\n\nMega menus will look better on the storefront. Setup gets heavier unless the back office can add many items at once, pull nested children, hide without deleting, and preview before live. I owned Phase 1 of that editor. AI generation is a later phase that writes into this same schema. Not this prototype.\n\nDesign ready. Click through it.\n\nListing, two-pane editor, item details, and storefront preview. Not labelled live.\n\nOpen the prototype\n\nConstraint\n\nCatalog first\n\nFurniture-scale catalogs need bulk apply and Include children, not another tag list. Nest stops at three levels, aligned with the storefront mega menu.\n\nDecision\n\nPreview, then confirm save\n\nDesktop and mobile preview does not require save. Saving an Active menu asks for confirmation. Inactive menus stay off the storefront.\n\nBulk add, nest to three levels, then preview\n\nCreate new Navigation starts empty on purpose. Add new leads into a bulk pick or a single item. Include children nests catalog under the parent - Furniture, Sofas, 3 Seater - up to three levels. Mix collections with pages, blogs, search, products, Home, and custom URLs. Attach a mega-menu image, or hide an item without deleting it.\n\n01\nList the menus\nName, item chips, Active or Inactive, actions. Create a menu is the path in. Existing menus still load.\n\n02\nTwo-pane tree\nName and Active sit on the editor. Structure on the left. Drag, nest, bulk apply. Not another tag list.\n\n03\nOne item, one panel\nLabel, link type, image, hide, remove. Change the linked resource without rebuilding the row.\n\n04\nPreview before save\nDesktop and mobile. Hidden items stay out. Saving Active asks before shoppers see it.\n\nFour screens from the prototype\n\nThis is the overview, not every resource-type frame. Listing, empty create, item details, then storefront preview. Open the prototype for bulk pick, Include children, hide, and save confirmation.\n\nListing Menu name, item chips, status, actions. Create a menu is the path in.\n\nCreate Empty structure. Add collections in bulk, or add a single item. Nested children come from the catalog.\n\nItem details Label, resource type, link, image. Hide on the storefront without deleting the row.\n\nPreview Desktop and Mobile. The menu sits on the storefront before save.\n\nWhat this is for\n\nPhase 1 is the editor merchants use by hand, and the schema a later AI draft would write into. I designed that path: bulk add, three-level nest, mix of link types, hide, preview, and a confirm on save. It is a prototype. Open it and click through.",
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