Suggestion: Cards usability improvements

[mickley]

The Cards view with iNaturalist data is really useful for quickly browsing through photographs, for example for pulling my own images to use for a lecture or presentation. Previously, I'd have used the iNaturalist Identify view for this, with very small thumbnails.

Two suggestions:

• Ability to change the size of the cards and thus the photo thumbnails (slider, or small/medium/large).
• Ability to change what data is shown below (or perhaps above) the card (e.g., date, family, state, county, locality). Something like what Adobe Lightroom allows in gallery view.

[kueda]

I definitely want to expand the info presented on the card (for me indicators of discussion and amount of media would be paramount, but customization might be cool too). In terms of controlling card size, how would you feel about a photos view instead with more control over thumbnail size, e.g. something more like the taxon photo browser on iNat, where all photos are shown?

[mickley]

A photos view seems like a great idea!

[kueda]

Ok, just to get what I think I want in writing here, I'd like the card to show

• photo
• date
• number of photos
• number of comments
• number of IDs

In terms of customization, I think these items could fit in these placements

• top start corner
• top end corner
• primary (where scientificName is now)
• secondary (where eventDate is now)

Maybe you can put any of the text fields in those slots, with some customized number fields that are represented by an icon and a number