It’s not just you: Amazon’s shopping app is trying a different look

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Not agelong aft injecting much artificial quality into its buying experience, Amazon is present testing a caller homepage for its buying app connected Android and iOS. Millions of users successful the US volition spot changes starting today, with much slated to spot them implicit the coming months.

Fundamentally, the redesign seems to service the aforesaid intent arsenic the existent layout by surfacing personalized recommendations based connected your acquisition habits, browsing history, deals, and different signals based connected your buying activity. Today’s alteration conscionable builds connected that look with bigger, brighter graphics, much dynamic merchandise curations and groupings, and an accrued accent connected horizontal scrolling for the assorted collections and sub-hubs you’ll find. (It besides makes much country for bigger, thinly veiled ads.)

A graphic showing caller   UI of Amazon buying  app

It’s unclear conscionable however acold the scroll goes.

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Sports fans whitethorn spot a Thursday Night Football advertisement alongside a refill of their favourite pre-workout, for example, portion parents whitethorn spot toys, children’s books, and possibly the caller colorific Kindle portion being tempted by a merchantability connected diapers.

Amazon says it’s been iteratively investigating antithetic pieces of these UI changes for a while. The institution calls retired a caller Buy Again hub that makes it casual to banal up connected your often purchased goods, for example, and I’ve seen that alteration (but not the others) for immoderate clip now.

Screenshots of updated Amazon buying  app

Hopefully, merchandise recommendations volition consciousness a small little random.

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Again, these recommendations were antecedently disposable and worked likewise successful assorted forms before, but I personally deliberation the existent acquisition feels excessively random and scattered to beryllium useful.

Amazon is hopeful the coming changes volition amended connected that and yet enactment much products successful beforehand of you that are applicable to your sensation and needs — and possibly tempt a small much wealth retired of your wallet on the way.

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