Comments on: biggest.searchbox.ever

By: postscripter

postscripter — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:00:31 +0000

check the search box at http://www.souq.com

By: dave

dave — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:46:34 +0000

Came across a good explanation of this phenom on the disambiguity blog a little while ago:

“the size of the search element is a show of faith in the ability of the…search to ‘do the job’ in finding the information. Generally speaking, search on sites is rubbish and a conventional positioning carries this expectation of rubbish-ness.

The bold positioning of the search element here says – search is the right option for finding what you’re looking for. Give it a try.”

By: Brett Bonfield

Brett Bonfield — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:47:40 +0000

Thanks, though all credit for good design goes to Casey and all blame for design mistakes to me. I picked the Mistylook theme, which is nice for blogs, but didn’t work as well as I thought it would for a library website. The main problem, as Aaron pointed out, is the search box in the upper-right got lost in the shuffle, even after Casey supercharged it with nifty prompts (Books, Movie, etc.) and dropdown search suggestions (start typing and you’ll see what I mean). The new, BIGGER search box has helped tremendously.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:39:23 +0000

Yeah! I don’t know whether I’m turning into an old man or web 2.0 style has made me accustomed, but I find myself increase text size all of the time too.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:07:45 +0000

Ever since wordpress’s login screen, I have clamored for larger and larger search boxes on websites. I like the way this looks too.

By: J

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:06:43 +0000

Check out http://www.nikestore.com as well.

Same visual identity to the search box.

“We know you want to search, not browse, so have at it.”