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Practical Web Design
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Practical Web Design

by Philippe Hong
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
368 pages
7h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Making it noticeable

It's a bad approach to make the user look for the search box. The search box should always be easy to find, especially when you have a lot of content on your website. Make your search bar stand out by using contrast or color. It's also important to display a full open-text field because a search bar hidden behind an icon makes the search feature less noticeable and increases the number of clicks to access it: 

Here's what the Amazon website for mobile looks like: 

Image from Amazon.com

You can see here that Amazon focuses ...

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ISBN: 9781788395038Supplemental Content