Redesign search result items on mobile

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Redesign search result items on mobile #2152

Open cdrini opened 5 years ago

cdrini commented 5 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Search result items are very large on mobile. You can only see ~1.5 books a screen; scrolling through results takes forever.

Describe the solution you'd like

Better use of screen real-estate.

Proposal & Constraints

I'm thinking something like this:

Additional context

For reference/inspiration, here are some other sites:

Goodreads	Amazon	Indigo

TorontoPublicLibrary	OverDrive

mekarpeles commented 5 years ago

I like the idea and the design, adding it to backlog for now (2019 roadmap is close to saturation and we have ~60 Priority 1 issues

jdlrobson commented 5 years ago

Dropping to low as this is a feature request, and I want us to lay down some stronger frontend foundations before building out new things.

SaravgiYash commented 3 years ago

@jdlrobson I would like to work on this issue. Any guidance regarding what approach should I take? Edit: I think 2.5 books per page is fine. Should I go ahead and create a PR?

jdlrobson commented 3 years ago

@jdlrobson I would like to work on this issue. Any guidance regarding what approach should I take? Edit: I think 2.5 books per page is fine. Should I go ahead and create a PR?

As I outlined in https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/2152#issuecomment-520164898 I don't think we should take on feature requests until the frontend is in a better technical state.

omwagh28 commented 1 month ago

@cdrini assign me this issue