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Improving Receipt UX

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Improving Receipt UX

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2019-05-15

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There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago about rethinking the standard receipt design that I found quite compelling. Although, as good as the concept is, I think it can be improved (simplified) even further.

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What was the redesign exaclty?

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There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago about rethinking the standard receipt design that I found quite compelling. Although, as good as the concept is, I think it can be improved (simplified) even further.

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What was the redesign exaclty?

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Overall Susie Lu did a wonderful job tackling such an old and forgotten design. She fixed some major pain points with the current receipt layout:

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Curious how her redesign looks? Take a look at the original article

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What did this concept get wrong?

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What did this concept get wrong?

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Simply put: paper waste.

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Using bubble and bar charts from a visual design perspective is great - but not so eco-friendly in this instance (since we are dealing with physical paper waste). It might seem like a small nitpick but with hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of receipts printed daily, this extra paper space required would add up quickly.

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Fortunately, I think with some minor tweaks we can keep the underlying principles of the new redesign, while creating a more eco-friendly layout. We can save more space and therefore save on the overall paper needed.

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Receipt Redesign

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Let's take a look at my redesign concept:

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Receipt Update -

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Receipt Redesign

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Let’s take a look at my redesign concept:

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With this layout we are able to keep all the key concepts that Susie Lu initially introduced with her receipt design while preserving more space.

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Final thoughts

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The original redesign from a visual perspective is wonderful but when you start to think about implementing it into the real world, it seems slightly impractical. My redesign concept is far from perfect (I'm sure I've overlooked some use cases) but I think it's a strong step forward for redesigning our archaic receipt layouts.

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Final thoughts

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The original redesign from a visual perspective is wonderful but when you start to think about implementing it into the real world, it seems slightly impractical. My redesign concept is far from perfect (I’m sure I’ve overlooked some use cases) but I think it’s a strong step forward for redesigning our archaic receipt layouts.