... which is Suggestion #1... 🙂 It would be a lot easier to see if suggestions had already been made, and simply Kudo those, if they were happily corralled in their own category. It would also be easier to be seen as making suggestions and not looking for answers, if a post weren't grouped among people who really do have answerable (or unanswerable!) questions.
Other suggestions, little things that I notice and never find a moment to say—from a longtime independent UX professional, sometimes Upworker. Take 'em or leave 'em, not really meaning to start an argument—but I do believe a little more intuitiveness in site design is always a good thing:
—"Profile" and "My Stats" should* be under my profile pic, not under "Find Work."
—"Get Paid" should be a dropdown menu item under "My Jobs," not something one must find through a roundabout route under Reports. For frequently-used/ frequently-searched menu items, they should be as close to top-level as is practical.
—When I get a notification from Upwork (like Job Has Been Closed), I get a dot on my face and a dot on the Notifs bell. Why both? Not both, please.
—The AI for Best Matches must be... minimal? Though I close each job which isn't a good match with a pertinent reason such as "Doesn't Match Skills" (when I am in that menu and in any others), new jobs which have all the same keywords (like "Male" for a Voice Acting job, when I'm not... or "in Arabic," etc.) are back again the next day, as Best Matches for me. If that sidebar item were really "Best Matches," wouldn't it be learning... something...? There's already the firehose option, "My Feed," and the semi-firehose option, "U.S. Only" (for those of us in the U.S.). If "Best Matches" isn't really better, then what is it?
—And speaking of Best Matches, why have that menu item AND "Recommended"? Are they really both necessary?
—It would be nice, when I am looking in a custom search I saved, to have under the three dots the option to EDIT the Search, not just the option to DELETE ("Remove") it. I have learned not to name them something custom, because later (unless I'm missing a trick) I can't even tell what the search was—so I can't just delete it, redo it, and add or remove one parameter (an awkward workaround for the ability to edit)... since if I name it something tidy, I don't know what the parameters were!
*"Should" is all IMHO, of course. Which is why they'd be great in a "Suggestion Box" category on the forums...
I've got some other Suggestion Box thoughts but they lend themselves to a separate post and I've yakked enough for the moment, so that's for another day.
