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Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

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Post by goldenchrome »

ryes wrote: post #10
goldenchrome wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it intentional that each site section is only 80% of the screen width? Definitely make that 100% width. Phones are narrow enough already.

Thank you for the feedback. There is a peek of more content to indicate it is swipe-able to see more. Kind of like websites do with images, like Netflix for example. Do you think if it was 100%, then people would still understand they could swipe?

Your site is simple to use. This is good. It also means that users won't need much help before they are proficient. But by reducing the screen width, you're punishing your users forever. You can solve this by teaching users about the interaction up front. Try placing some text somewhere on the screen that encourages users to swipe. You can hide it once they've done it once. Alternatively, shortly after page load you can animate the page to peek the next column of content. It will require a little playing around so that the instruction is clear but unobtrusive.

Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

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Post by ryes »

goldenchrome wrote: post #31
ryes wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for the feedback. There is a peek of more content to indicate it is swipe-able to see more. Kind of like websites do with images, like Netflix for example. Do you think if it was 100%, then people would still understand they could swipe?

Your site is simple to use. This is good. It also means that users won't need much help before they are proficient. But by reducing the screen width, you're punishing your users forever. You can solve this by teaching users about the interaction up front. Try placing some text somewhere on the screen that encourages users to swipe. You can hide it once they've done it once. Alternatively, shortly after page load you…

What phone are you using right now? That would be helpful for me to consider. I did increase the column width from 320 to 335 pixels based on your feedback. It does feel better. But if I make it too wide, then the content can get too big I feel.

I'll be thinking more about this feedback and will test some more. Thank you!

Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

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Post by Version467 »

I’ve tried it on mobile and it works very well. Super smooth navigation, nothings lagging or moving in unintuitive ways.

But for me personally the preview of the next column takes up just a little too much space. Coupled with the fact that the active column has no white space on the left and is off center makes it feel a little cramped. But I think this could be solved with a little tweaking. The overall layout looks and fells great.

I am using Kagi at the moment, but were I to use Google I’d definitely consider using this.

Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

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Post by ryes »

conelion wrote: post #29

Seems like a great UX to get broad information about a topic! One little thing: In my opinion the labels 'Google', 'Wikipedia', 'Twitter', etc. don't need to be fixed on mobile since you already have to icons above it and it does take up a bit of vertical space. Other than that a nice concept.

Thank you conelion. I am super glad the UX feels great to you, and you are understanding the design advantage :)

That is a really good UX optimization find. Yes on mobile, since it is just 1 column at a time, I could remove the title label.

The label does help to anchor the column a bit more clearly and gives consistency between mobile-desktop. What do you think about that? Is the extra few pixels height more valuable? Really value your opinion!

I'll try coding it up tomorrow morning and see how it feels!

Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

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Post by ryes »

RamblingCTO wrote: post #34

Hm, I have no results, I can only see Google on the left side. The console says: Uncaught TypeError: data.queries is undefined web https://swurl.com/?q=google+translate:1179 jQuery 6 But no blocked requests.

Hrmm, sorry about that. Please try again now. I added some more checking code. https://swurl.com/?q=google+translate

If it still isn't working, could you let me know the exact URL you are looking at? And browser you are using?

Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

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Post by ryes »

visarga wrote: post #26
jawerty wrote: post #12

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Thanks for your response. Also that's cool you're probably right about meta tags open graph is broadly used but not uniform in their content. As for additional sites Stackoverflow and quora would be great additions.

also Arxiv (Google Scholar) and HN

Wooo, love it visarga. That is good input and suggestions.

I don't usually use Arxiv. Do you have some example queries where you would like to see a Arxiv column?

Also same with HN? That is a bit of a harder one. I guess I could trigger a HN column if there are tech news type results returned from Google.

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