How can we improve the new admin page design for better user experience?

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It’s been more than a month+ since Shopify pushed the new Admin page design on us without any ability to opt out. I’m sure that the complaints have tapered off, but that should not be confused with shop owners “learning to like” the changes or whatever the Shopify Developers have been telling themselves.

The front-and-center graph is still essentially useless. It might be interesting to someone, but it is certainly not deserving of such a prominent position. And the right hand column is still missing and still missed. That is where the info was that we needed multiple times in a day. Now rather than being able to have it set up to show my current daily sales (to the penny!) and the current month’s sales (to the penny!), I now have to select daily sales on the main page and then go to analytics to get the month’s sales. Why analytics defaults to the current month up to yesterday, I’ll never know. If I want the exact daily sales, and my sales are over $1k, I have to go to analytics to see that as well.

I stopped counting, but there were at least 8 posts lamenting the changes and not ONE single comment in support of the changes. But silly shop owners, what do we know about what we need? We have developers here to tell us that we need things streamlined and greyed out to the point of disappearing in a sea of grey. Ah, how could I be so foolish to not appreciate an admin page that gives me less info.

And Shopify doesn’t care, apparently. Getting pats on the back from other developers who worship at the altar of streamlined is more important than making a product that serves shop owners. So I guess we just have to move forward with a suboptimal product because we are not in a position to actually demand change.

TLDR - The new admin page is still terrible but developer egos are apparently more important to Shopify than customer satisfaction.

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I am just getting numbers ready for the bookkeeper and I had to google how to find the payout schedule.

I do not like this. I used to be able to see everything I needed to know right on the admin home page. Then, if I wanted to, I could follow up on whatever needed my attention right then and there.

Now I can’t find anything, I don’t know how my store is doing for the month, I don’t know when my payouts will hit the bank, I have to spend several minutes finding what I used to know in seconds.

It really doesn’t give me any usefull information, except that we have an order, and I have to go to other menus to find what I want to find.

We have a little mom & pop type store. We also have a physical store, do sound treatments and therapy, and build custom instruments. We are busy, work all day 6 days a week, and the added hassle of having to search for information that used to be right there is very frustrating.

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You have to go to analytics to get any of the detailed info you were able to get from the right hand column before this “update.” To get the payout info you have to hit the button above and to the right of the useless main box on the admin home page. Don’t you love “streamlined?”