On mobile, traditional search is a dead end: small keyboard, autocomplete that guesses wrong, filter menus that take 8 taps to navigate. AI chat lets shoppers describe what they want in one sentence and get the right product immediately.
"Blue dress under 100" returns 340 results sorted by default ranking. The shopper gives up at result 12.
Category → Price → Color → Size → Sort — each one a tap. Most mobile users abandon the filter flow entirely.
"Linin shirt" returns nothing. The shopper doesn't know if the product exists or if their search was wrong.
Search is stateless. "Now show me the same but in XL" requires starting over. AI remembers the conversation.
"Something comfortable for a beach holiday, not too formal, around €60" — AI parses intent, budget, occasion, and formality in one pass and returns 2–3 perfect matches.
AI understands "linin", "chiffon-y", and "that flowy kind" the same way a good sales associate would. No zero-result dead ends.
"Now show me the same but in green" works. AI carries context across messages — the shopper never has to repeat themselves.
Chat is the native mobile input pattern. One text box, one message, one result. No menus, no filters, no back navigation.
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