Are you crazy busy? 

Why do we use words associated with mental illness to describe how busy we are?

“It’s been a crazy day”, “His calendar is bonkers”, “I’m insanely busy next week”.

Is it because on some level we all recognise that being too busy leads to stress and poor mental health?

Weeknotes #61

What happened this week…

  • Launched CPR Training Kits on the Online Shop.
  • Discussed attending wedding shows to promote our wedding products.
  • Made product feeds available to support advertising.
  • Replaced the search function on the Online Shop with a new improved version.
  • Reviewed interfaces between AX and the warehouse system.
  • Reviewed Interface Design Documents for interfaces between AX and Magento.
  • Set up a dashboard for reporting on our Magento Development Work.

Read this week…

Doing next week…

  • Launching our new Donate page to take donations independently of placing an order.
  • Developing Order Status Updates to improve customer service.
  • Marketing CPR Training Kits.
  • Writing requirements for the interfaces between Magento and AX.
  • User research to develop hypothesis for visual testing on the Online Shop.
  • Increasing our Christmas Cards marketing.
  • Developing blended search results on the Online Shop to show products available on Ebay.
  • Improving our projects tracking and reporting.
  • Working up a plan for developing another Magento site.

Interesting stat of the week…

  • Over the last month, on the first page of the Christmas Cards category page the Religious filter was the most used with 0.37% of the clicks, the first card was the most clicked with 2.06% of the clicks, and the most clicked button was to go to page 2 of the Christmas cards with 7.38% of the clicks.

In the not too distant future…

  • Testing different page layouts for different types of products.