Touch-Tap-Click-Push…Search Properties From Your Mobile Browser
By: David Golightly, User Experience Developer | August 15, 2008
If you visit Zillow today using your iPhone Safari, Blackberry, Opera Mobile or other mobile browser, you will notice something different. The mobile homepage. That’s because we just launched a mobile browser version of our popular home search feature making it easier and faster to search properties from your hand held device.
Our goal: To speed things up and improve the mobile user experience. To make this all possible we put together a lightweight search interface that should be easy to use on mobile devices. Built by myself and designer Adam Ebel, we intentionally kept it simple. Just enter the address and press “GO”. If we find an exact match for your search, you’ll see a home details page which will tell you:
• Zestimate
• Number of beds
• Number of baths
• Square footage
• Sale price
• Homes for sale/Recently Sold/Make Me Move status
• Photos
• Seller and owner added facts
• Zestimate history graphs
• An inline static Google Map of the home’s location
• Links to view the home details page on Zillow (and for iPhone users, on the built-in Google Maps)
During your visit, you’ll be able to use links to switch between the mobile site and the main site, so virtually all of Zillow is viewable, and finding homes using the address search feature is a snap.
Feedback and requests for future versions are much appreciated. Feel free to e-mail me at davidgo@zillow.com.
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Mortgage Samson on August 17, 2008 2:53 pm
I’m checking it out on my blackberry. Zo Cool!
Adam on August 18, 2008 7:34 am
Nice move - I can see this being very useful for people looking for a home but wanting to explore on their own.
Kevin on August 25, 2008 8:42 am
Now you just need to hook into the iphone 2.0’s gps to give you zestimates in realtime as you walk down the street.