Previewing the new My Briefcase.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

On April 8, we are releasing a major new version that features a completely redesigned “My Briefcase”.

The current “My Briefcase” was conceived as a central dashboard for agents and clients to quickly access the tools they need, and view at a glance important information.

Unfortunately as we added new features to the application, the dashboard (My Briefcase) did not expose them and they ended up hidden behind a series of links making them un-discoverable and less useful. The dashboard became a glorified navigation system and the information displayed (view screenshot below) became meaningless.

The Old My Briefcase

We completely redesigned the dashboard for the upcoming release to address the current design’s shortcomings. We’ve introduced portlets which put the most important information and tools at your fingertips. Here is a screenshot of the upcoming “My Briefcase” page for agents.

The New My Briefcase

The agent’s dashboard will have 7 portlets:

1. My Clients
2. My Listings
3. Saved Searches
4. New Matches
5. My Favorites
6. Client Invitations
7. Search History

The portlets should be self explanatory and I’ll cover a few of them in an upcoming blog post.

The new Briefcase accomplishes a few things:

• Lets you view valuable, timely, important information quickly.
• Lets you perform your task in an unintrusive way.
• Lets you discover new tools and functionality with minimum effort.

Over the next week we’ll be unveiling more details about portlets and other upcoming features. Stay tuned.