Our intial thinking is that we may start with some simple improvements here:
- Always order categories by parent category, then subcategory
- Show the half-and-half badge style for subcategories (so there’s some visual hint of its parent)
It doesn’t solve the whole problem, but the workarounds of either: 1) having users add the parent category themselves or 2) updating category names to distinguish are both available.
We’ll keep an eye on this though and consider what other changes may be warranted.
How many of these categories do you expect a given user will add to their sidebar?