As someone whose job entails buying a lot and very frequently from McMaster-Carr, their website is a godsend.
I need a tube fitting in stainless steel? Here’s a MASSIVE list of all of them for every single size imagine that’s easily Ctrl+F’d. Click on the item, enter a qty, add to cart, keep going.
When you have about 200 line items to fill each morning across multiple POs, racing the clock to secure that same-day delivery, modern UI design paradigms are a massive waste of time.
McMaster-Carr is designed with purchasing teams in mind, and the people who work in such teams are (by training or experience) oriented towards certain optimizations that to the casual user may seem overwhelming to parse or ugly.
The day McMaster goes “modern UX” is the day I lose hope.
Edit: forgot to add that in many cases, purchasing on McMaster is done via CSV imports on their order page. Literally do not have to interact with the catalog if I want to. Which is also a godsend.
I need a tube fitting in stainless steel? Here’s a MASSIVE list of all of them for every single size imagine that’s easily Ctrl+F’d. Click on the item, enter a qty, add to cart, keep going.
When you have about 200 line items to fill each morning across multiple POs, racing the clock to secure that same-day delivery, modern UI design paradigms are a massive waste of time.
McMaster-Carr is designed with purchasing teams in mind, and the people who work in such teams are (by training or experience) oriented towards certain optimizations that to the casual user may seem overwhelming to parse or ugly.
The day McMaster goes “modern UX” is the day I lose hope.
Edit: forgot to add that in many cases, purchasing on McMaster is done via CSV imports on their order page. Literally do not have to interact with the catalog if I want to. Which is also a godsend.