search forms on online shops
I’ve been thinking about the search functionality for our online shop this week. I’ll write up our approach to search properly at a later date but for now I thought I share the variety of search forms I’ve seen on other online shops.
Some things of note:
- The longer search boxes were mostly on book sites.
- 3 sites also offered “suggestions as you type” (Amazon, Borders, Ocado)
- Only 1 site had an obvious link to an advanced search
- All sites handled scopes with a dropdown
(Visio stencil is from GUUUI)