Flickr’s new search results page

Posted by Antony Theobald on Wednesday 05 August 2009 at 9:57am
Tags: finding images | flickr | interfaces | photography | usability |

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While we were researching our newly-updated Finding Images on Flickr advice document, we were among a number of users given a preview of the new layout.

Photo from New York Public Library on Flickr

The Flickr blog has all the details, but these are the main changes we think are most useful:

• Exclude photos by a particular user from your search results - this is useful if you are sorting by most recent as you will often find one user who has uploaded an entire holiday's worth of pictures using the same description or tags for every photo regardless of actual content
• View related 'things' in a side panel - e.g. group pools or photographers who have content that relates to your search; narrow your search to a particular location. Be aware that if your current search is for Creative Commons licensed material only, and you click one of these related links it will no longer be limited to Creative Commons material
• Choose the new 'Medium' view - in addition to the existing Small (was called Thumbnail) and Detail views, the new Medium view is useful for scrolling through larger previews without accompanying text
• View more images per page - 28 as Small (was 24), or 60 as Medium or Detail (was 24)
• Read more information about each image when not in Detail view - in Small and Medium view you can now click the new (i) information button to display the same info you get in Detail view without leaving the page

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