Freelance UX designer here. I'd be into something like that but booking time for me. Kinda like how Tock does for restaurant reservations on off days. maybe for different lengths of time or kinds of projects? Feels like i do mini-auctions with 2-4 clients anytime I become free. Though this can sometimes make the "sale" feel more commodified.
THIS IS SOOO GOOODDDD!!! I'm thinking how to make this a team activity to kindly label each other and understand how to address them as a group. Though i guess this requires a maturity that is rare...
Totally! I think the search term issue will get addressed as the datasets get tagged with more near and similar terms so it populates the search results with a wider net of results. (like misspellings, synonyms, topic and category terms, etc).
I feel like we talked about topics being a search result too, but there was some barrier to the search tool to get it to work with other page types. That'd fix a lot too.
It was mostly, when looking at search results, "is this the right dataset for me?" Particularly when many datasets have similar names or the title of the dataset was unclear. So we added descriptions and "quick-peaks/expand" in search results.
This is in contrast to the original version which was very dense tabular view, having people scroll sideways to parse or click into many pages what a dataset was about.
Hi! totally understandable with search. I think we went with search because, for the user base, they usually have a specific topic or database in mind. For people who don't know to search for, we have the category sections below Absolutely we need a better null-search state! (I'd do nearest-match and topic pages, but one release at a time. And CRAZY to only do search at 10k items! i mean, i do love opinionated design... but don't you find it hard to browse so many items?
Density - i am often against highly dense pages cus, for me, scan-ability and legibility are the most important. Big text and just a couple items for page seem to fit the bill. But i usually go denser on search-result-pages or dataset pages since it's more of a comparison step.
I wish we had more visualizations and stories to put front and center. Believe me, they quickly become super contentious! But that is the vision...
Yeah, an earlier draft had something like that but it's so hard to capture all the kinds of projects people need. After more people sign up we will have data informing us what overarching problems people are seeking, and we can feed it back.
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