Search UI Feedback

Users praise a new website's design and functionality but repeatedly suggest improvements to the search bar, such as making it more prominent, instant, larger, or adding filters and tags for better discoverability.

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Sample Comments

julien_c Nov 25, 2014 View on HN

Great vision and execution. I would love for their search field to be instant (ie. no return keypress required), would improve discoverability/serendipity.

lucideer Feb 3, 2022 View on HN

Great website. I'll be using this.Two small bits of UI feedback:1. It's not extremely clear that the search field is usable2. Feature request (probably for medium term, I get this is a very new project): The 4 boxes up top giving a breakdown of different dark patterns is cool, but it would be cooler to filter granularly. e.g. some might not care too much to avoid such things as grinding or "complete the collection", but would still like to avoid others.

zeynepevecen Oct 16, 2021 View on HN

This is great UI and idea! I think you can improve it with a search bar. It would be faster.

visakhcr Oct 18, 2008 View on HN

It will be nice to have a search feature on the home page...

imwilsonxu May 6, 2011 View on HN

Nice UI, and it would be better with search/tags ability.

mrbluecoat Dec 6, 2024 View on HN

Adding search would be a nice value-add

webwright Sep 19, 2007 View on HN

I'd give it a higher rating if it had a search UI. ;-)

laurent123456 Oct 16, 2021 View on HN

It's nicely done but unfortunately it would still be faster to type something in a search engine and check the result.I think it could improved by adding a free search text box, and maybe by not having a second dropdown list. Instead of making the user select something (sometimes you might no even be sure what to select), display all the options directly - since it's just one line of text anyway it won't take much space.

hhygjgfft Nov 17, 2016 View on HN

Seems great, I'd suggest making the front page search input box larger (it's too vertically narrow)

imightbekyle Mar 18, 2025 View on HN

Good point, I didn't think of it like that. I should add search functionality