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Usability: Participants Mistook "Suggested Functions" for the Full List.
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Description

Participants Mistook "Suggested Functions" for the Full List.
Participants had difficulty locating the specific function they needed. A common behavior was to focus solely on the "Suggested functions" list, assuming it was exhaustive and not immediately thinking to use the search bar.

Recommendation
Goal: Ensure users understand that the "Suggested functions" list is not exhaustive and are encouraged to use the search feature to find additional functions.

Ideas:
Make the search field more prominent. Focus on the search field by default.
Provide clearer visual cues that the "Suggested functions" list is not exhaustive and that search is available.
Make the suggested functions less prominent

Proposed design:

  • Put the search input on focus by default
  • Change the search placeholder from 'Search function' to 'Search among 2000+ functions'
  • Change color of 'Suggested functions' heading from color-subtle to color-base

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Event Timeline

gonyeahialam triaged this task as High priority.

"Suggested functions" list title might be misleading, incorrectly implying that based on an article content (or users' edits), those specific functions are suggested.

gonyeahialam changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Jul 9 2025, 1:52 PM

Proposed design:

Put the search input on focus by default
Change the search placeholder from 'Search function' to 'Search among 2000+ functions'

image.png (1×750 px, 152 KB)

Additional design update

Change color of 'Suggested functions' heading from color-subtle to color-base

Change #1181108 had a related patch set uploaded (by Daphne Smit; author: Daphne Smit):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikiLambda@master] Differentiate better between suggested functions and search results

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1181108

Change #1181108 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikiLambda@master] Differentiate better between suggested functions and search results

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1181108