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If you have more than one feature and only one field, you will inevitably end up with conventions for smuggling extra data into it, which users will then have t
by prodigal_erik 16y ago
If you have more than one feature and only one field, you will inevitably end up with conventions for smuggling extra data into it, which users will then have to learn. E.g., Twitter has @user and #tag, and Google has site:, inurl:, and cache:.
- rabidsnail 16y agoThis way we can have our cake and eat it too. New users see only one input, making it very clear what they're supposed to do, and advanced users can still do advanced things.
- danhak 16y agoMight be worth noting that @user and #tag were conventions invented by users and later adopted by Twitter itself
- petervandijck 16y agoChrome has 1 textfield that's both used for search and for urls. Related: I've found the search textfield in the Windows 7 START menu hugely useful. Just type 2 or 3 letters instead of browsing through folders of programs. 1 textfield + autocomplete = powerful for known-item searching. And: Twitterbar adds more functionality (tweet) to the URL bar of Firefox. One textbar is definitely the way to go, with as only downside that learnability goes down a little :)