Fellow Nestorphiles!
One of the biggest challenges we face in offering a compelling property search experience is that on the one hand users like Nestoria for the simple, fast, clean experience, on the other hand, property is inherently a complicated topic with lots of little details. We’ve discussed some of our approaches at addressing this in the past. This challenge applies not only to the presentation of the properties and the filers for sorting them, but also to the tools around finding a new home. As we become an increasingly digital society people want their data in more and more formats. For example maybe you want your property search results via geoRSS, or KML or GPX. Or maybe you want to email a Nestoria page to someone you’re house-hunting with. We offer all of these formats and options, but want to find a way to make them available to users who want them without cluttering the experience for everyone else. Likewise some users (but probably only a small percentage) may want to see the OpenStreetMap version of Nestoria So for some time we’ve been mulling what to do. Yesterday we launched our new “viral/tools panel” on the property search results page. As you can see on this screenshot of property for sale in Sheffield, on the upper right side of search result pages users can now click on the panel to display a host of options for sending results to your friends or bookmarking or alternate formats.
