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Infelicities in plugin search UI #6

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ToxicFrog opened this issue Oct 15, 2023 · 0 comments
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Infelicities in plugin search UI #6

ToxicFrog opened this issue Oct 15, 2023 · 0 comments

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Three minor issues I encountered when using this the other day:

  • there is no indicator that the search has been accepted; when you type something in, there is a delay and then the sidebar updates to show the results
  • ...unless there are no results, in which case nothing happens, so there's no way to distinguish between "search still running" and "search completed and returned the empty set"
  • if you don't realize the above and think you need to press enter to search, it reloads the same page with your search cleared and ? appended to the URL

Search still works, but this isn't great UX.

Suggested mitigations:

  • display a visible indicator when the search is running
  • display "no results" or similar if the search finds nothing
  • make enter in the search box a no-op
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