Introducing the new AstroBin Search experience
I hope you all had a great summer! AstroBin's was super busy with cooking new amazing stuff for you! I'm excited to introduce the new AstroBin Search experience, which will begin rolling out over the next couple of weeks.
Search is a core feature of AstroBin, and the most used page of the entire website, and it was about time it got an overhaul. The changes introduce new amazing features and a fresh new design with focus on usability and looks,
New functionalities
Design and usability improvements
The view takes the entire available space, and is optimized both for very large screens and small mobile devices.
The image is in a fixed position so you can scroll the information without losing sight of the most important feature.
All the information has been organized in a way that is readable, compact, and sensible.
Complex information that might difficult to read for images with lots of acquisition dates and filters, have been organized in a clever way so that you only see the information you care about, and can click-thru to see more if you want.
You can close this view by clicking on the X button or hitting Escape on your keyboard, and you are back to your search results in the same scroll position.
You can use the left/right buttons (or left/right arrows on your keyboard) to navigate all search results, including those in pages that haven't been loaded yet.
Better mobile device support
And by the way, it works great on mobile phones too, with a responsive design that adapts to all device sizes and swipe gestures to navigate between images and close the image view!
The new features will roll-out over the next few weeks. If you have any trouble or spot any bugs, please report them using the contact form! You will be able to opt-out of the new Search experience in your preferences, for a while.
I hope you find this useful!
Salvatore