If the mantra of real estate is location, the equivalent of design is arguably details.

Charles Eames said it best:

The details are not details, they make the product.

We fully agree. And so we spent a significant amount of time trying to get all the details just right with our latest design. There are still some particulars we’re not 100% pleased with, so we’ll probably be finessing things for the foreseeable future — or for-evvv-errr.

Featured below are some of these details found throughout the site.

When displaying only telecommute jobs (a new feature in this latest release), a smaller wifi icon appears next to the map and remains there until you clear the settings.

The shadows on these listing partner logos are not images, but rather CSS3-generated elements using box-shadow, transforms, and generated content. Thanks to Matt Hamm for the code suggestions.

An important component of this latest release, and a revised strategy moving forward, is personifying the companies that post listings with us. Too often job seeking is a one-way engagement — the job seeker’s persona is fully exposed, while the company remains largely only a name. We wanted to give companies the opportunity to feature a profile picture, not unlike the one a job seeker might have on, say, Twitter. (And speaking of Twitter, we can pull in this profile picture directly from the company’s Twitter account.)

Additionally, to help users familiarize themselves with each company as they scan the available openings, companies are prompted to provide a 40-character tagline, or elevator pitch as it’s called in the posting process.

These upgrades are just the start of an ongoing strategy to personify the companies that post with us.

Another important component of this release is a revised set of job categories. These categories help employers/clients classify their listing, and in turn they’re used by candidates to filter jobs that match their experience and interests. We spent a great deal of time laboring over the actual text for these categories, and we’re quite confident we’ve got a category for just about any project or job you might do as a web professional.

Notably, we’ve added two new categories: Information Architecture and Content Strategy. We’ve also renamed Mobile to App Development, as that seems a more appropriate label to describe the kind of work mobile developers perform and encompasses more than just mobile (e.g. tablets). Notice you can link to and bookmark those categories, too? That’s also new.

We like this map flyout. A lot. It even functions on mobiles and tablets. But we’re not totally satisfied with not being able to zoom in/out. That’s a detail we’re going to improve.

Uh oh. 404 sadface.

See a detail you’re not happy with? Drop us a line and let’s see if we can’t turn that sadface upside down.