Navigation Redesign Prototype for review

For the VapeHub team

A menu people can
actually use.

Today, opening a category on VapeHub drops shoppers into a wall of hundreds of products, stacked under “A, B, C” links that don’t lead anywhere. It’s slow to use, easy to give up on, and hard for Google to make sense of.

The fix

Replace the alphabet soup with a handful of clear categories and tidy, curated panels — so people find what they want in a click or two, on any device.

352
individual products crammed into a single menu panel
104
“A–Z” links that lead nowhere
0
real categories to browse by — just the alphabet
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One category, before & after

Here’s what happens today when someone opens a category — next to what the new menu does instead.

Today

An A–Z dump

hundreds of products, alphabetised

A
Aspire — Pod KitAl Fakher — 8000Argus — RefillAroma King — PodsAisu — 10mgAmber Leaf — Alt
B
Bar Juice — SaltBig Puff — RefillBlue Razz — PodBerry Mix — ShotBroadside — CoilBubblegum — 20mg
C
Crystal Prime — KitCoils — 0.8ohmCherry Cola — SaltCaliburn — PodCotton Candy — PodCola Ice — Shot
D
Doozy — ShortfillDeals — BundleDouble Apple — 10mgDrag — RefillDinner Lady — SaltDispo Alt — Pod
… and so on, A to Z — 104 links, 352 products
Illustration of today’s menu. Every letter is a link that goes nowhere; the products underneath are just an alphabetical list.
New

A curated panel

shop by type, by brand, a featured deal

The new VapeHub menu: the Vape Kits category open, showing By Type, Featured, Shop by Brand columns and a Big Puff Kits deal card
The new menu. Vape Kits opens onto a handful of clear choices — browse by type, jump to a brand, or grab the featured deal.
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Try the new menu

This is the real, working prototype — not a picture. Have a play with it.

Desktop: hover a category to open its panel Mobile: tap the toggle to see the phone version Wireframe: see the structure without the styling
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What’s changing, and why it matters

The short version, in plain English.

1Real categories, not the alphabet

Eight clear sections — Vape Kits, Pods & Refills, E-Liquids, Nicotine Pouches, Brands, Deals, Guides, plus New In — replace the A–Z list. People browse the way they actually shop.

2Tidy panels, not a wall of products

Each category opens onto a curated panel: shop by type, jump to a brand, and a featured deal. No more scrolling past hundreds of items to find one.

3Every link goes somewhere

No more dead ends. Every link leads to a real page. A small number of new pages are flagged for us to build before it goes live.

4Built for phones

On mobile it becomes a clean tap-to-open menu with big, thumb-friendly buttons — where most of your shoppers actually are.

5Easier to find means more sold

When people reach what they want in a click or two, more of them buy — and fewer give up before they’ve started.

6A clearer shop for Google, too

A logical structure gives Google a much clearer picture of the shop than a list of letters ever could — which helps the right pages get found.