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explore page - misleading default search options on first arrival #13

Open Andrew-Clement opened 8 years ago

Andrew-Clement commented 8 years ago

A minor wrinkle contributing to the confusion around formulating proper searches is that on first arrival on the explore page the initial search query is potentially misleading, suggesting that Originate in | Submitter Name only needs the actual name to be filled in. pastedgraphic-19

Better would be to have the query correspond to the route displayed. Simplest would be to have it read Contain | Traceroute ID | ###### pastedgraphic-21

See also issue #14 on alerting first time visitors to explore page that the route shown is the latest contributed.

Proposed Labels: (Until I can figure out how to label issues myself, please label this item as: Issue Type: bug duplicate enhancement help wanted out of scope question wontfix Importance: critical major minor Urgency: immediate soon whenever Difficulty: wicked hard easy (this is my perception of difficulty, please correct if I'm mistaken) See also issue #15

colinmccann commented 8 years ago

Actually - things are a bit more complicated than that. We have several different interaction patterns, and they are unpredictable. For example, sometimes a quick search actually fires the search, and sometimes it requires the user to actually hit the Search button. Yuck.

The larger issue here is: does the search criteria always reflect what is being displayed (Eg the last search). The short answer is that this is close to impossible - eg user might make some changes to the search criteria but not actually hit search. Then we're out of sync.

I've bandaided this in the past, and can do that again here - but it's probably better to overhaul the whole UX flow...

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A minor wrinkle contributing to the confusion around formulating proper searches is that on first arrival on the explore page the initial search query is potentially misleading, suggesting that Originate in Submitter Name only needs the actual name to be filled in. [image: pastedgraphic-19] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/12848029/16542113/17b40386-4050-11e6-9869-a515ff79f596.png

Better would be to have the query correspond to the route displayed. Simplest would be to have it read Contain Traceroute ID ###### [image: pastedgraphic-21] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/12848029/16542152/6dc454d2-4051-11e6-917f-44d017179912.png

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Andrew-Clement commented 8 years ago

Yeh, I agree it's best to wait for the major UX overhaul.