giftee for Business Portal

Gift search relevance

An epic to make search understand occasions, not just product names.

+18%
search-to-order
50
phrases mapped
역할
Product Designer
기간
1 quarter · 2024
1 designer, 3 engineers
플랫폼
Web

문제

People searched the way they think about gifting — "housewarming", "for a colleague", "under 500k" — and got almost nothing back, because the index only matched product titles.

The empty state was the second most viewed screen in the whole funnel.

The empty state, second most viewed screen in the funnel.
The empty state, second most viewed screen in the funnel.

접근

We treated occasion, recipient and budget as first-class filters rather than words to match, and mapped the fifty most common phrases onto them.

Where a query still returned little, the page began suggesting adjacent occasions instead of showing an apology.

Occasion, recipient and budget promoted to real filters.
Occasion, recipient and budget promoted to real filters.

결과

Searches ending in an order rose by 18%, and the empty state dropped out of the ten most viewed screens.