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gloggs · May 17th, 2006, 05:57 AM

Hi

I do love this software, but as I'm setting up my first gallery, there are some usability issues that some of my testers are consistently coming across.

Currently they don't understand why the search boxes all look the same and are labelled the same, but don't function the same.

For example, on the 'home' page, if you search for a user by name, it comes up with the comment "This category does not contain any images.".

First of all, What Category??? I didn't realise that I was in a category. I was looking at the home page. Secondly, once the user has drilled down into a category it is quite possible to search for a user by name. Which is great.

But why do these search boxes work differently? They are not labelled differently.

May 17th, 2006, 05:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
gloggs Junior Member Verified Customer Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 12	Search boxes have usability issues! Hi I do love this software, but as I'm setting up my first gallery, there are some usability issues that some of my testers are consistently coming across. Currently they don't understand why the search boxes all look the same and are labelled the same, but don't function the same. For example, on the 'home' page, if you search for a user by name, it comes up with the comment "This category does not contain any images.". First of all, What Category??? I didn't realise that I was in a category. I was looking at the home page. Secondly, once the user has drilled down into a category it is quite possible to search for a user by name. Which is great. But why do these search boxes work differently? They are not labelled differently.