I wanted to share my experience as a loyal user. I highly appreciate your platform, but I can’t help but notice a few shortcomings, especially in terms of customization. For instance, the WixBlog application could benefit from a complete overhaul with a more modern and customizable algorithm.
Additionally, I feel that the customization of product interfaces for online stores could be enhanced. Regarding the overall Wix interface, it’s undeniable that it could use a facelift, perhaps even with the addition of a dark mode.
I would like to suggest, with all the respect I have for your team, to consider a more thorough redesign of the Wix interface, incorporating new features, revisiting the old ones, and drawing inspiration from other web editors such as Framer. This would apply to both Wix Studio and Wix. Thank you very much for your attention and your excellent work so far.
@charly-Felix I’ve made note of this! Just to recap, you’re suggesting an entire user interface update with things such as dark mode, a new Blog interface, Stores products, etc. is that correct? Are there any other specific Wix Apps that you could see benefiting? Or are there any current Wix Apps that you think don’t need updated?
For me, the main thing to do is a redesign of WIX. Then, it would be really great to add new features to Wix, such as freely creating shapes and buttons, full adaptation for all devices, the ability to create a site with multiple people simultaneously (AND ESPECIALLY FOR FREE)!! Being able to truly create beautiful, completely customizable designs because I find that we can’t customize our elements enough (like blog posts, store articles…).
Next, some redesigns and additions to customize Wix apps would be really welcome.
I think you portray Wix too much as the easy and quick editor, and you show WIX.STUDIO too much as the editor where everything can be moved. I like Wix, but there’s too little customization, and Wix Studio is too complicated and is based on moving sections, and I don’t like that. I look forward to future updates, and I would love to contribute even more to creating new Wix content and even join the Wix team. If I can finally join the Wix team, I don’t want to be paid, I would just like to help Wix grow to be even better and share my ideas and see progress.
I don’t have an issue with the interface. I would like to see more internal design solutions being put into place. Specifically containers. Give us the options to link containers, create gradient backgrounds, set an image background and give us ‘blending’ options like blur, darken, hue, saturation etc. There should be more we can do with containers that allow it to act like a full DIV
@funkyrhino Are you currently using workarounds to achieve the design effects that you ultimately want for containers? Is there a top, main option you tend to need the most for containers?
Thank you very much for your help, I can’t wait to see future updates. It would be great to add to the roadmap: Wix and Wix interface. Thank you in advance. It would also be great to have the roadmap and the forum in French. Thank you
I also don’t mind the interface. I’d rather design options be explored rather than bothering with an interface redesign. I’m a web designer with 20+ years experience, but have to use Wix at work. I am relatively new to Wix and have been trying to exclusively use Wix Studio as it looks like that is the direction Wix is going. Here is my wishlist:
Work arounds, tutorials, and other features are often demonstrated in Editor or Classic Wix. For how powerful Wix Studio can be, I’m continually surprised every time I search for a solution only to find information for obsolete or lesser versions that don’t work in Studio. If Wix Studio is the future, I’d like to see some incentive for partners & certified Wix experts to focus on the new version and update old Editor content.
The provided responsive templates have a strong modern/young/neo-brutalism focus. It would be nice for Wix to remember that a lot of its agency members are designing for lawyers, government entities, schools, and corporate offices. We need some clean, responsive templates that don’t prioritize funky animations and metallic gradients.
As a mobile-first designer, I find it frustrating that I have to design in the largest screen resolution first in the hopes that elements will scale down as Wix advertises. This is almost never the case. I always have to create additional breakpoints and end up wasting a ton of time fiddling to get everything looking good on different screen sizes. My current project requires 8 breakpoints. There has to be a better way.
The app store is abysmal. Functionality that is native on other platforms like video slideshows, galleries, interactive timelines, tables, etc. have to be jimmy-rigged. And even Wix’s own add-ons are buggy. Many options offer low support and often cost money I can’t pass on to clients. Custom coding either needs to be more easily accessible on all price points or Wix desperately needs a wider, more functional source for add-ons.
I’m often surprised and frustrated that I can’t add background images or borders to different sections. The work around for borders is boggling. The provided responsive template here: Construction Company Responsive Template | Wix Studio has thin border lines between sections & cells and Wix has had to set background colors, then create 1px padding to create the lines, then another background color of an element so that the padding looks like a border. CSS for borders is insanely simple, I’m stunned it’s not a part of every builder. Work arounds for background images require adding the desired image and either stretching to fill a section or aligning to the bottom or side of a container and then fighting with it on mobile views. Again, such a basic thing to hand code and yet a builder makes it more difficult to manage. I’m often building spec sites for clients on the free version of Wix, so I can’t utilize custom coding.
Another super simple, easy to code issue is hovers for text links. In Wix, all you can do is highlight the text, add a link, and then highlight it again to set the color. There’s no way to add any kind of hover, be it a color, a text-decoration, or a highlight.
No option to add your own bulleted list design. There’s so much you can do with lists in CSS, but Wix doesn’t even let you change the color of your basic bullet without a weird little work around where you have to set your entire list one color to get the bullet color, then highlight each text line and change the color again… resulting in some super messy code. I can’t add my own bullet image, can’t add spacing or decorative lines between list items, can’t change the alignment, can’t remove the bullet with a list-style: none tag. Similar complaints for buttons - very limited style options in the builder.
In the classic editor, one could easily copy elements from one page to another… even a whole new site. In Wix, one must rely on the “asset” feature and it is extremely limited. Often it will only add inner containers to the asset and all formatting and sizing is stripped when I add the asset to a new site or page. It won’t let me save containers with hamburger menus (or other limitations) as assets so I often have to rebuild a thing in its entirety anyway. If one of the Wix templates offers a design solution (that is magically scaling perfectly) I either can’t add it as an asset due to forbidden elements OR it only adds a few of the needed elements to an asset library and breaks in my design anyway. Beyond frustrating. Recent example: I needed the menu bar from this template: Insurance Company Landing Page Responsive Template | Wix Studio in a different design. Couldn’t add it as an asset since it contained a hamburger menu. Had to try and rebuild on my own and am STILL fighting with it on multiple breakpoints.
A really strange issue that crops up from time to time is when I split a cell and style everything in the main desktop view. Then in mobile, the new cell will appear completely out of order. Can’t drag and drop the cell itself, so have to rearrange in mobile view. Sometimes I’ve found this happens with containers, too.
It would save a TON of time if, when we add any kind of media, the ability to add an alt/title tag for SEO could show up on the ‘add media’ screen. As it is, I have to go into each image after it’s added and fuss with the different setting menus to find the little “tell google what this image is about” section. In WordPress, I’m able to set a title, description, and caption that are then remembered so if I add the image elsewhere, the same meta information is attached to the code. The way it is now is especially frustrating because it’s easy to forget and then when you’re going through the SEO checklist, a page will get flagged for not having alt tags and title tags… but it can be really tricky to find out which graphic or image is causing the issue.
Finally, while I appreciate that there is a wishlist forum, there’s no way to see what I’ve submitted, and no way to follow up on whether or not it’s going to a vote.
