Facets served humans scanning large catalogs; agents need predicates and evidence, not click-heavy refinements. Preserve facets as accessibility while moving discovery logic to intent graphs and structured filters.
Executive snapshot
The Death of the Faceted Navigation
Retail & commerceUX
The move
Faceted UI becomes secondary when assistants carry context across sessions and channels.
The friction
Facet taxonomies drift from how agents encode constraints, causing mismatch and abandoned tasks.
The product verdict
Unify facet semantics with agent query schema; measure task completion, not facet engagement.
Field note · Strategic dispatch · /dispatch/death-of-faceted-navigation