Notes: design decisions
We worked hard to make Estately exceedingly easy to jump into and start searching for homes, yet also extremely powerful. This means we limited the myriad of search options we could have added, combined other options, and made the options that only 0.1% of the users in this world “absolutely need” accessible via the text search box. Our goal is to get people to searching and refining in seconds. When we recently added notes, we made some design choices to keep this ease of use.
Make it easy to add a note. And another.
No links, no separate pages. Just click in a box at the bottom of the page, write a note, and post. If you want to add another note, do it again.
Type and add – pure and simple
Make notes accessible
New, unregistered users and old logged in users alike can add notes – we skipped the forced login screens. People who stumble on the site can write as many notes as they want. Of course, we don’t want people to accidentally abandon their notes and lose them to the ether, so we encourage them to sign up or log in. Notes are permanently saved when people log in.
The log in warning appears when you create a note
Make notes easy to search
Don’t add more clutter to the interface – we let you search your notes through the text search interface that a lot of people are using already.
