At least once a day or in two days, we all pay our ritualistic visit to Orkut, only because Facebook has taken over that frenzy. Well, I recently paid one such visit, and wanted to message a friend of mine. However, to my great surprise, I could not find a ‘Search’ button on the page!
Even though I understand that when Google started off, they did put a tool-tip saying ‘You can hit Return instead of clicking the Search button to get the results faster’, did they just assume we all learned?
Assumed intelligent behavior?
10 comments:
Bad user experience agreed. A search text box without a hit button works well when the results are shown as and when you type. So that i need not hit enter or a button to view the results.
What is this " upma " ?
The metaphor on that portion of the page is all mixed up too. For the left hand set (actions) you need to select some friends, but to search you don't. I wouldn't have grouped them together.
@Umesh
I like how FB works, it gives a list of all your friends that match with your text..
saves a lotta time!
@Soul
???
@soup Didnt get that. I thought orkut also shows a list of friends which matches my search word when hit enter for search. Btw I see the same kind of a search box with not button on my facebook friends list too.... Am i looking at something different?
Ok i get the problem. Orkut mysteriously has two My Friends list page which works in two different ways.
1. If i click on the "Friends" link on the top bar i get a friends list and there searching for "lav" shows "lavina" and "soup" shows "souparna"
2. If you click on the "View all" link on the my friends box on your home page it shows another friend list where when i search (has a search button too)for "lav" shows none as the result.
Now dont ask me why is it like that.... :-)
@Umesh
In facebook, if i type um, it will give me a drop down of all my friends with match "um", so its way easier for me to pick you from a drop down list! instead of typing in the whole thing! also when i am searching on my friends lists it only makes sense to give me suggestions from my list of friends!
Orkut has another problem, to this day i have not figured what the name search searches on! ideally the display name shud be different from the actual name of the user. so if one fine you want to tell eveyone you are at the top of the world or in egypt you will have to do so by changing your first n last name and i will no longer have a friend if i search for umesh!!
i hope you got what i said! :)
@soup
> In facebook, if i type um, it will give me a drop down of all my friends with match "um", so its way easier for me to pick you from a drop down list!
Nice. But I never got something like that on facebook till now. May be i have not explored it much.
> so if one fine you want to tell eveyone you are at the top of the world or in egypt you will have to do so by changing your first n last name and i will no longer have a friend if i search for umesh!!
So what do you think is the right way of implementing the search? Please provide solutions...
@Umesh
The simplest way i would say is to have a display name and user name, so i can still search for "Umesh" while his display name might show " Back after a delightful weekend " :)
@soup "display name" used as a way to show their current status is something the community did when they didnt have any other way of doing it which lead to the problem of not able to find people. Istead of introducing new complexities, i think they should have kept the name intact and have a status field or something like a twitter line.... which would solve both the problems. display name being used to put one liners or status messages creates a lot of confusion, atleast for me is not the right way. i get friend invitations from people like "i love you for all reasons"
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