Search

Problem Statement

Before the Feed adding social shopping features, users could only search products.

We needed a flow that could do the following:

1. Find Products
2. Find Makers (vendors)
3. Find Users

Solution

I sought out other search flows to see how other companies had handled this in the past.

I tried to focus on search flows that handled multiple different types of content.

The main design patterns across several reviewed platforms we incorporated into our flow were:

1. Dividing between Products, Brands, and Users using tabs so that users can easily access different kinds of search items
2. Integrating the search bar directly into the top navigation - prior to the redesign, the search bar was in line with the rest of the content in the page. I updated this to match UX standards.