A search bar needs to stand out, but also needs to be well placed. A study conducted by A. Dawn Shaikh and Keisi Lenz (Where's the Search? Re-examining User Expectations of Web Objects) with 142 participants showed that the most convenient spot for users would be located on the top center or top right of every page on your site.
Get Practical Web Design now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
Get Mark Richards’s Software Architecture Patterns ebook to better understand how to design components—and how they should interact.
Dive in for free with a 10-day trial of the O’Reilly learning platform—then explore all the other resources our members count on to build skills and solve problems every day.
Start your free trial Become a member now