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Former Member
3 years agoWhy is the top search result default instead of all results?
The way I search — like the vast majority of people in user testing I have done at my place of business — is to type a few things and hit return. Then you peruse a full list of filtered options. It i...
viswiz
3 years agoSuper Contributor
When 1PW8 became available as early access version many users complained about the new search or to be more precise about its new UI and about missing substring search.
A few months later Dave Teare presented a solution for the UI problems - CMD+OPT+F. It works like the search of all previous 1PW version, i. e. just type and get the results in the middle column, no popup window with a few pre filtered results and no extra keyboard shortcut. For me and many others this was usabilitywise a near perfect solution. But it introduced other problems. First of all it's well hidden. And even if someone found it, its placement just next to the sort order button and directly below the "real" search" field feels totally out of place.
Im working for ~25 as software engineer. All our products work like 1PW1-7 did and I can't remember a single customer complaining about it. All programmes and tools I use daily have search UIs like 1PW1-7 had. Just simple straight forward type and get results. The only exceptions to this patterns seem to be some search engines and shopping sites.
So please revert the search UI change you made in 1PW8. And on top of that merge all three search/filter/find variants 1PW8 currently supports into just one.