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Opened May 20, 2018 by Marina Machado@3CATmeooow
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Improve Search Bar

Hi Guys! You are doing an amazing job. I think you have a pretty good MVP, but I would like to make some usability suggestions. First of all the search option in the top bar is kinda... weird. It opens a small pop up and then I have to manually focus on it. A lot of times I don't realize that and I end up having to type the search twice. Which itself is a pretty bad user experience.

I created a quick mockup with an alternative solution. Have a text input, to write the name of the game you are looking for, a combo box to filter the search by platform, and a button to both accept the search and signify the search action to the user.

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Most of the time you are looking for a specific game, and you already know the platform. In the current state of development, when you search something, it gives you all the matches for all the consoles. As it does not appear to have any specific order (besides I guess creation date) it is very hard to find what you are looking for, especially if the game is available on many platforms.

PS: I will probably create another request for this, but in the meantime leave this... I think you should add a spinner or some other type of signifier to notify the user that the search is undergoing.

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Reference: MyVideoGameList/public#225