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Another solution would be to instruct the user to type something in the search box, whenever the search button is clicked on an empty box.
by jessaustin 7y ago
Another solution would be to instruct the user to type something in the search box, whenever the search button is clicked on an empty box.
- reaperducer 7y agoThe problem is that instructions are text. The sort of people who think the computer will magically know what they want are the kind who won't read or understand instructions.
- jessaustin 7y agoSure, you can't be successful with every user. If they refuse to type in search terms, I don't see how substituting "Go" for "Search" improves anything.
- reaperducer 7y agoSure, you can't be successful with every user For the types of web sites I build (healthcare), I don't get to just ignore a certain group of people because they're inconvenient, or don't fit into my assumptions about how people should work or behave. I don't see how substituting "Go" for "Search" improves anything. The research shows it works. I'm going with the research, in large part because it involved actual testing on actual people and not just people in cubicles making presumptions.
- ars 7y agoThey'll read single words, but not longer sentences. I've experienced it as well, where the page literally says right there what to do, and I get calls from confused users not sure what to do. I want to say "Did you read what it says 2 inches above where you clicked?" But I never do and am just polite to them.
- nkrisc 7y ago> I don't see how substituting "Go" for "Search" improves anything. You didn't see it in the studies you ran, or are you just thinking about through your perspective instead of that of the low-education, tech-illiterate users?