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Improve initial, empty screen search experience
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alexhollender_WMF
Mar 29 2019, 5:54 PM
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Description

Description

Currently when you tap into search in Minerva there is a white overlay that appears on-top of the screen.

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We should improve this step of the experience. Perhaps there are two different approaches here:

  1. don't show the overlay until the person starts typing
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  2. display related/recent/trending articles until the person starts typing (this would be context dependent, e.g. if you are on an article and tap into search vs. if you are on the main page)
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Event Timeline

Jdlrobson subscribed.

We'll be using the new wvui search experience for Minerva (T282473) so I'm declining this ticket.

Is there anything we need to add to T284242 for the wvui search experience to address this particular problem?

We'll be using the new wvui search experience for Minerva (T282473) so I'm declining this ticket.

Is there anything we need to add to T284242 for the wvui search experience to address this particular problem?

@Jdlrobson sounds good. Do you know if we'll automatically achieve item 1 (from the description) when we switch over?

don't show the overlay until the person starts typing

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Do you know if we'll automatically achieve item 1 (from the description) when we switch over?

Yes.

@alexhollender we should do yes. We wouldn't show the results until typing occurs, however if we refocus search, given we see past search results we would see the overlay - this is how it behaves on Vector anyhow. I've added these notes explicitly to T282473 lest we forget