Search

Search feature for Polari.

Designers

BastianIlsø, AllanDay, JakubSteiner

Goals

• Search for conversations
• Search for links
• Search for people or channels?
• Consistent with search design in other apps
• Should be possible to add additional search criteria to narrow down, but simple search should generally be enough
• Suited to IRC communication
  • People often have an idea of which channel(s) a conversation probably happened in (although they are sometimes wrong)
  • You often have an idea who was in the conversation at the time
  • The thing you are searching for is often a conversation/interaction - a specific chunk of conversation history defined by its participants and subject matter
  • It is more common to search for conversations in which you participated
  • People often search for links, in the same way that you search for an email attachment

Relevant Art

Facebook Messenger

Slack

Discussion

A "Recent Activity" view similar to Facebook Messenger's sidebar could help with finding links

Initial experimental mockups

Tentative Design

Comments

See Also

• Bug for Polari search