Over the past few months we’ve been working on a new part of the website that makes a few things easier for readers, and introduces some functionality that people have requested in the past.
This new ‘Learning Space’ allows you to:
- Save articles for later reference
- Save favorite photos to create a personal lookbook or wish list
- Control which comment threads you receive alerts on
- Manage PS news subscriptions
- Track past orders on PS Store
Other small advantages are that you can see your reading history – so even if you don’t save an article, you can go back and find something with useful information; and it’s easy to add a profile picture, so something consistent is visible when you leave a comment on the topic.
The new site is live now – you can access it by clicking on the person’s picture at the top right of the website.
We’ve been testing this for a long time, but I’m sure there will be minor issues that need to be fixed, or processes that don’t work as you’d expect. If so, please let us know in the comments, and the web development team will get into it.
Of course, in order to have a personal space like this, it is necessary to have a lot of your information and how this personal data is handled is important. Please seehere for our privacy policywhich explains how the data is handled.
My feeling is that the advantages that will be most popular among readers are the storage of articles, and images.
Although our navigation is straightforward, it will always be limited to the selected tax. I can see saving articles would be useful to create references for things like fabric selection for future commissions – bookmarking items from both the Fabric Guide and some review articles together, for example.
And similarly with photos, I know students who already save photos from PS to create a timeline of things to invest in – and others to do so to remember ideas for outfits and combinations.
Most of the work is self-explanatory I think, but these two things should be written:
Favorite topics
- To save an article click ‘Add to favourites’ at the top of the article
- It should then appear in your ‘favorite articles’ list in the reading area
- To remove it, click ‘remove’ in that area, or the same button at the top of the article
Favorite pictures
- To save images click the bookmark icon that appears when you roll the image
- On mobile, you can’t scroll so click on the image to enlarge it, then click the bookmark icon.
- That will then appear in the ‘Favorite Photos’ section of the study area
- To stop saving, click the bookmark icon in the reader area, or in the original article
I really hope this new functionality brings readers and the PS team closer than ever – it’s always been a big part of what makes the site successful, and creating new functionality can only help.
If there’s any new functionality you’d like to see, mention it in the comments and we can create a roadmap for future development. Like article suggestions in article comments, it makes everything an equally rewarding response.
Thanks, and enjoy the new site.
Simon