<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title></title><style type="text/css">.felamimail-body-blockquote {margin: 5px 10px 0 3px;padding-left: 10px;border-left: 2px solid #000088;} </style></head><body>Am 23.03.2014 16:25:08, schrieb Philipp Stefan:<br><blockquote class="felamimail-body-blockquote">I have made some mockups concerning the placement of the search field.<br></blockquote><p>Great work! I like it all ;-)<br></p><p>But why do you change the search icon (magnifier) into a yin-yang whatever arrow? Overloading a control is bad usability in most cases.<br></p><p><br></p><blockquote class="felamimail-body-blockquote">[2/A] Here I tried to integrate the search field with the search button. <br></blockquote><p>Users might understand the search function to be related to the topics. </p><p><br></p><blockquote class="felamimail-body-blockquote">[3/B] Placement on the upper right.<br>[4/C] Top centred search field. <br></blockquote><p>My aesthetic appreciation prefers 4/C. But all mockups replace the original header line. This is a problem when the content jumps down on search, that means when a further search bar is opened. Can't we integrate them? Perhaps right hand of the address line (> cool wallpapers).<br></p><p> <br></p><blockquote class="felamimail-body-blockquote">[5/D] Search field on the bottom.<br></blockquote><p>I think it's a no-go to open a small input on demand somewhere at the bottom. <br></p><p> </p><blockquote class="felamimail-body-blockquote">I would find [2/A] to be the most elegant solution, but the limited <br>space makes it also impractical when searching for longer search terms. <br>This could be of course the solved by scaling down the font used, but it <br>would also introduce some visual inconsistency.<br></blockquote><p>Scaling the font is treated as crime in some circles :-).<br></p><span id="felamimail-body-signature"></span></body></html>