Designing for a more efficient Toybox search experience by reducing the search to print time rate by 7%.
Product Designer
Zach O.
Kyle M.
3 Months
Mobile
Tablet
Desktop
Wireframing
Interaction Design
Visual Design
Prototyping
The existing Toybox search is limited to toy results only and can be overwhelming to process the results. To improve this experience, the team and I were determined to make the search process as easy and useful as possible for Toybox users to find and print a model.
To get a better understanding of how other popular 3D printing websites use filters and sorting methods, I researched websites like Thingiverse and Cults3D.
Too many categories to choose from that makes the user even more stressed out when trying to figure out what they want to print.
The top navbar is overwhelming and hard to know what you should be looking at. There are many different design categories and filters being shown, but really lacks order + organization.
Don’t know what to print? We’ve got you covered.
Find what you’re looking for before pressing enter
Refine your search to find exactly what you’re looking for
To better understand what time increments to use for the time duration slider, I analyzed our platform's print time data for ALL 3,800+ models and found that.
With new filters and categories, we’ve empowered users to print faster than ever.
Looking for ideas to search? We now promote the top 3 trending search queries and toys when you first click into the searchbar.
With toy suggestions + search complete, users may be able to save time searching through all of the search results.
Find what you need within seconds by using the new sort by, print duration, cost, and difficulty filters.
With thousands of users creating toys for our platform you can now search for your favorite creators on Toybox.
Additionally, to ease the process of modifying these cards, I created a card component that utilizes Figma's auto layout and properties.
These features include handling username text-overflow, the ability to easily switch between mobile and desktop cards, and changing the user's account status.
Within the first 3 months we found that there was a 7% DECREASE in time for users to begin their search for a toy to print and when they press the print button.
Additionally, in the month of August 2024 we found that 40.52% of all toys printed came from search suggestions, while 37.6% came from text input.