In addition, Valeria, I notice another difficulty brought about by the new location of our saved searchesįrequently-used Saved Searches could be hidden by the scroll featureĪ freelancer's favored / most-used search or searches might only be accessible by scrolling across the list of saved searches at the top of the My Feed page. Kind of like a tag cloud at the top of the feed, rather than being implemented as a single row with a scroll function to access those searches which do not fit (very much a pita tbh).

I take it that Upwork believes that their algorithms are smarter than their freelancers.īut I like my own configured searches - they are there for good reason - and I'd much prefer them to be front-and-center on the Find Work page, as they were – they are my primary method of finding appropriate projects.Īt least if Upwork is going to insist on relegating these searches to 'My Feed', could they please be re-worked in this UI redesign so that the text is a little bigger, use some green colour to denote that they are a navigational feature, and that they appear as more than one row of 'text bubbles'? So this is a relegation in more than one sense in the UI.įreelancers' own searches are important to them To be intuitive, to stand out distinctly as a navigational feature, and to be appropriately legible, they should be larger in size and not implemented in the same colours as the technical skill requirement bubbles below.Īll other key navigation on these pages is in larger type, and most of those are green in colour. That doesn't make intuitive sense - those technical skills bubbles are primarily for incidental informational purposes but the freelancers' searches are a primary navigational tool on the page. Their design is also the same as the bubbles which denote the technical skills required for projects in the feed below. Implemented as they are, the bubbles for these searches in their new location are less easy to read than their old equivalents in the Find Work left-panel UI, in smaller type, and in (dark)grey-on-grey text. Upwork has just put hurdles up to freelancers finding appropriate jobs in accordance with their own preferences. Up to 3 extra clicks are required to find some searches In addition to that it's not possible to scroll across the list with a touch gesture, as I just attempted on my iPad.

If you have more than 4 or 5 saved searches, not only is the freelancer an extra click away from accessing their searches, the freelancer has then to scroll to the right in order to see their remaining searches. Scrolling is required to see a longer list of searches I would make the comment that Saved Searches are much more important and primary than Recent Searches – which remain in the Find Work left-panel navigation UI (and they take up a lot of space). Saved Searches are more primary than Recent Searches I realise you will always get push back on UI changes, however.

Rssowl saved searches features