New Ways to Browse & Discover on Made By Mums

We’ve made a few improvements to Made By Mums to make browsing and discovering handmade products simpler.

With thousands of products available from hundreds of independent makers, one of our ongoing priorities is making sure it’s easy to find your way around the marketplace. Whether you know what you want or are looking for inspiration, we’ve introduced a few new updates that should make it easier to find exactly what you are after!

After we recently introduced enhanced category pages for two of our most popular categories, baby cardigans and handmade cards, this update is the latest way we’re refreshing our platform to make it work better for everyone who uses it.

Read on to discover some changes we’ve made to our category pages, navigation menu, and a new page where you can find all our categories in one convenient place.

New category hub pages

With more and more creators choosing to join Made By Mums, the wealth of products available in many of out categories has increased the variety and range of items we are able to offer. Yet, in doing so, our old category pages were struggling to keep up.

To help, we’ve updated many of our category pages to display sub categories, rather than a big list of mixed products, that can prove difficult to browse due to the number of results now available. Instead of taking you straight into one long list of products, these pages now help you explore the different categories available within that range.

These new category “Hub” pages make it easy to reach subcategory pages that narrow in on what you are looking for. For example, our jewellery page now lets you find products in sub categories such as earrings and bracelets. So, no more scrolling through pages of items to find what you are after!

It makes browsing feel much more natural and gives you a much better overview of what our makers have to offer.

An easier way to find popular categories

We’ve also updated our main navigation to make some of our most popular product categories easier to find.

After analysing which categories people are most interested in, we used that information to simplify and streamline the links. As a result, finding the category should be faster and easier than ever.

The aim is simple: fewer clicks and less hunting around when you’re looking for the things you’re interested in.

You can still explore the full range of categories, but the main navigation now provides a clearer route into some of the busiest parts of our marketplace.

We plan to further update our navigation in the months ahead, so stay tuned for further enhacnements in this area!

A new All Categories page

With such a huge range of products across a wide range of categories on offer from over 650 makers (and counting!) it is a challenge to help visitors navigate to that category they’re interested in.

To help with this, we have created a new All Categories page.

This gives you a complete overview of the different product categories available across Made By Mums, making it easier to browse the marketplace from top to bottom and discover something you might not otherwise have come across. You can also search for a category using the search bar to quickly and easily find the category you want.

We hope you find this page useful! Give it a try yourself now.

More ways to discover something special

These changes are all part of making Made By Mums easier to explore.

Our search bar is still there when you know exactly what you want. But of it’s browsing where the fun begins, especially when you’re looking for something handmade, personalised or a little different.

With hundreds of independent makers and thousands of products across the marketplace, we want it to be as easy as possible to discover the creativity behind them.

We hope the latest changes make your visit to our marketplace that bit more rewarding!