Grid View - Bring Back The Slider (adjusts the image size previews in Grid View)
Recent changes to the Grid View noted here, https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/10117683547539-List-view-and-grid-view-enhancements, have removed a key feature that had become part of my companies workflows.
Prior to this update, the Grid View had an slider next to the button we use to toggle between the Grid and List views. Today, that slider is gone.
Now the ONLY way to view the Grid is as thumbnails. My company of 500+ uses Box daily and a BIG part of our workflows relies on this feature. We never imagined this would be removed and it is causing us to discuss alternative options. We are an enterprise client with an unhealthy dependency for the feature at this point.
I keep asking myself, "why was this changed" trying to understand the underlying libraries that may have changed, and I cannot thing up a solid explanation other than this was a design mistake.
After reaching out to the support team on Twitter they suggested I write about our use-case here. They said this change was made to make the Web App more responsive between different screen types, and that images will change size based on the screen size.
I can confirm the image sizes DO NOT CHANGE based on the screen size. What does change are how many items are included on each row in the Grid based on the screen size.
From a front-end design perspective there was NO need to remove the slider...Because if you are wanting the images to change size based on the screen you can simply tell React or w/e front end library you are using to default to the users preference for the slider. If the slider is changed from the Box standard, and the selection is NOT full size, respond. Otherwise the responsiveness isn't even needed.
From a user POV I can tell you straight away that this design "Update" is not making Box better and in our case if this doesn't revert back to how it was previously we are going to have to look into other platforms. (Never imagined I would be writing that last line because WE LOVE BOX!).
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The grid view slider has been released on April 24. Please make sure to leave feedback if you have any pain points or problems you would like for Box to solve.
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Anonymous
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The slider was a key part of my organization's workflows. We relied on the slider to quickly view images during collaborative exhibit development meetings. Now, we have to open files individually, which costs time. The new grid view also makes it impossible to see which items are tagged. You have to switch to list view to see tags. Please bring back these features. The new grid view is far less useful.
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Anonymous
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Put back in the resizing bar particularly in the grid view. This is the best way to quickly view pictures
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Anonymous
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Grid View - Bring Back The Slider (adjusts the image size previews in Grid View) !!!
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Anonymous
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Echoing previous comments about bringing back the resizing slider. Removing this slider was not helpful in any shape or form to creative workflow especially when I have to review literally hundreds of images at a time.
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Anonymous
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Put back in the resizing bar particularly in the grid view. This is the best way to quickly view pictures.
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Anonymous
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A recent update has removed all ability to adjust the sizing of image file thumbnails in grid view. This is a terrible design choice and has removed an important functionality of thumbnail viewing. Removing this feature has made Box as an image storage solution inferior to other storage solutions.
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Anonymous
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Our company used the grid view slider to see if assets were viewable at different web and print sizes quickly without opening them and manually resizing. Please restore this function.
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Anonymous
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Please bring back the ability to choose the size of icons/images in grid view mode. This allows a user to scroll through image files as large icons instead of having to go into Preview mode and click through one at a time