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- Designing The Holy Search Box: Examples And Best Practices | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine

A search box should be a box. Reason? Your visitors don’t read the page; they scan it. The most common design for the search function is a box, with the input field being a relatively wide box. Users tend to scan for this pattern on a Web page, so as good practice, try to avoid any other kind of design, such as linked text or a button without a text field.Designing The Holy Search Box: Examples And Best Practices | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine