Monday, August 6, 2018

How important is the search box?


I've had this nagging feeling for quite some time that much web development time is wasted in designing and developing search boxes that are never used beyond the developers and testers.


a mockup of a standard webpage layout


With browsers implementing search bars themselves, I rarely use web-page level search boxes, with the exceptions of search engines and online stores. For blogs and informational websites, I often don't trust the built-in search to return better results than I'd get from Google.



What are the usability trade-offs if it's left out?




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