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In my experience these slow typists also tend to look at the keyboard while they are typing - not at the screen. Thereby completely negating the benefit for thi
by johansch 9y ago
In my experience these slow typists also tend to look at the keyboard while they are typing - not at the screen. Thereby completely negating the benefit for this group of people.
I guess that for the intersection of slow typists who look at the screen while typing, Instant Search is useful. But how big is this intersection really?
- praneshp 9y agoMy sample set of 1 (mom) types char, then looks at screen on loop.
- johansch 9y agoThat must be even more excruciating to watch than my mom, who types the entire search string while looking at the keyboard. If I try to hint and say, "look, there's an autocompletion thing that has already guessed correctly what you are painfully trying to write, why don't you click the top suggestion?" she just shushes me away (she's busy concentrating on typing). So I have stopped doing that, and am now just resigned to sit and wait, whenever these things happen.
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- puzzle 9y agoYou're right to some degree, but there were lots of user studies done. It was a net positive. One of the amusing things was that users would follow the instant results without necessarily being consciously aware of them. I.e., when describing their interactions with prototypes, only a few noticed and pointed out that they were getting results without pressing Enter, yet a larger number clicked on them. It had to be pointed out to them, at which point they would often go "whoa". I remember a few non technical users who really raved about it.
- aoeusnth1 9y agoFor super slow typists, they don't trust their ability to hit the correct key, so they look up frequently to check that they don't have a typo.