Good afternoon everyone. Weekends tend to be a bit slower traffic wise for EV-CPO, so I think it's a good time to shake out some new features.
In the last year and a half I've been running EV-CPO, I've received all kinds of feedback on how people search for cars, what EV-CPO is good at, and what it's particularly not good at.
When I first launched EV-CPO in its current form, it was meant to be utilitarian and highly functional. I didn't focus on User Interface at all. It allowed people to search, filter and sort on all the cars in the database in ways unavailable on the Tesla site.
But as the number of cars listed grew, page loading became an issue because it loads all the cars at once for each section. That was a turn off for a lot of people.
And unless you subscribed and set up alerts, it was very limited on allowing people to do "or" filtering -- i.e. I want a Red OR Blue car. At the same time, people had a list of "must have" features ("AND"), and again, if you weren't a subscriber, you had to toggle the filters each time for those (i.e. must have pano roof AND smart air suspension).
So what started as a small project last month to enhance the Alerts to allow more "OR" option selections, turned into a full-blown re-design of the user interface. So while I was at it, I also wanted to improve the data loading issues -- all data is loaded dynamically and instantly. No page reloading or waiting. And I made the UI a bit better to look at, and I hope, a lot more fun. And very usable on mobile devices.
And as Tesla adds more features and options, having a fixed set of display columns for Model X, or Model S for US, Europe, etc was another limitation. And the result columns one person wants to see, isn't what someone else wants to see. So now there is a fully functional 'Column Selector' tool, so YOU can choose exactly what columns you want to see (or not).
So this is a 'soft launch' to TMC community. I don't plan to post it on the main EV-CPO site until Monday to give me a chance to make sure everything is working as planned.
And I still have a few things to flush out in the coming weeks, but I'd be happy to hear any feedback people have, again good or bad to help improve the overall user experience.
So without further chit-chit, I guess you want to see and play with it. Here it is (I feel like Steve Jobs)..... Announcing:
Thanks.
