sketch by susan

I question why I fear everything, here are some answers

I have a vivid memory of this moment — When it was discovered I was coloring drawings instead of taking notes using the new set of highlighters at the ripe age of 9, those highlighters were smashed upon the concrete floor.

I’m a visual person to a fault. This blog has done well for sketches and photographs, but less so for written pieces. I’m trying out Medium as my writing platform of choice.

Here’s the start –

I experienced this just yesterday. On my screen is a not quite blank canvas: a defined scope and screenshots ready for editing. A product I thought I understood well. But alas, I couldn’t budge, why?

Particularly, the search results page mention!

Trulia’s suite of consumer products, its website, mobile apps and iPad app all got facelifts too. Photos got bigger. The design got flatter. And in the case of the search results page on their website, they lost the left rail altogether and moved to a two-column layout.

Grade: A

I like the direction that Trulia is taking its design. Deep-sixing that left rail of refiners is like a blast of fresh air across the page. Trulia was the last holdout of the major portals on this front. Vendors and brokers, if you’re still desperately clinging to that wall of dropdowns and form fields on your website, do yourself a favor and move on.