Places Tour
Three states of a search interface that starts with everything and narrows twice: a map with no query and no results rail, the same viewport with 'coffee' typed into it, and the place page one result deep. Watch what each narrowing adds — filters and open/closed status at the list, then tickets, hours and a phone number at the place — and where the transactional surface sits relative to the facts.
The map with no query
Signed out over midtown Manhattan at zoom 14, and the left rail — where results live — is not there. What fills the screen instead is the map's own editorial: Times Square, MoMA, the Empire State Building, the Met, Chelsea Market, each already chosen and labelled by whatever survived this zoom level. Seven category chips run along the top (Restaurants, Hotels, Things to do, Museums, Transit, Pharmacies, ATMs) with an arrow for more, and a card in the corner reports the two things about this area you did not ask for — 65 degrees, and traffic much slower than usual. The search box is one control among many here, which is the point: the default is browse, not query.
