So I’ve begun picking Yelp apart in preparation for Yelp 3.0. I’ve gotten to the broken-eggs stage. It still doesn’t look like an omelette. I have a lot of goals for 3.0, including providing a reusable documentation-viewing widget for other projects. But one of the cool things I’ve been hacking on today is a combined location and search entry. It’s still very much a work in progress, but I wanted to show screenshots anyway.
When you’re on a page, the location entry will show you what page you’re on, like so:
You can click the drop-down arrow for a history of where you’ve been:
If you click in the text field, you can type in some search terms:
And when you activate a search, it becomes a location in your history:
It still needs some polish, and I need some icons so I don’t have to abuse the search folder icon. And it definitely needs some usability testing to see if its functionality is discoverable. Help viewers can’t afford to have a learning curve. But it’s been fun to play with so far.
