Ubuntu Brand Guidelines website

design.ubuntu.com search looks like it never returns results

Bug #1157141 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu Brand Guidelines website
Fix Released
Medium
Barry McGee

Bug Description

1. Go to <http://design.ubuntu.com/>.
2. Search for something that is on the site.

What happens: "Sorry, no results have been found Sorry, no results have been found"

What should happen: Results.

Examples:
<http://design.ubuntu.com/search?search=slider&submit=>
<http://design.ubuntu.com/search?search=dots&submit=>
<http://design.ubuntu.com/search?search=ubuntu+brand+guidelines&submit=>
<http://design.ubuntu.com/search?search=downloads&submit=>

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
information type: Proprietary → Public
Tanya Edwards (tanya-edwards)
Changed in ubuntu-website-content:
assignee: nobody → Anthony Dillon (ya-bo-ng)
Revision history for this message
Anthony Dillon (ya-bo-ng) wrote :

The search is return results under "Guidelines" column. There are no results for examples and downloads. Is that incorrect?

Thanks,
Ant.

Revision history for this message
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Oh my goodness. I didn't even realize those "Guidelines" links were search results! In my defence, they look nothing at all like search results. They have no underlining, no extract with matching text highlighted, no date, no nothing. And they all end in ">". The net result is that they look exactly like secondary navigation, so I tuned them out.

I think this report is still valid, though. On a page that does, in fact, display search results, you shouldn't see "Sorry, no results have been found" even once, let alone twice. Instead of using three columns where two of them will almost always be empty, I suggest one column with subheadings for those kinds of documents that have any results.

Separately, the "downloads" search shows that design.ubuntu.com/downloads is being classified as a "Guidelines" result rather than a "Downloads" result, which is obviously wrong, though that may be a separate bug.

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
summary: - design.ubuntu.com search never returns any results
+ design.ubuntu.com search looks like it never returns results
Revision history for this message
Anthony Dillon (ya-bo-ng) wrote :

Yes complete agree.

I believe this bug will be resolved with the search results page being redesigned and layed out in a more user friendly way. Setting this bug to confirmed and will pass this on to be scheduled.

Thanks,
Ant.

Changed in ubuntu-website-content:
assignee: Anthony Dillon (ya-bo-ng) → Tanya Edwards (tanya-edwards)
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Thanks. A good article on designing search results: http://uxmag.com/articles/designing-search-displaying-results

Inayaili de León (yaili)
Changed in ubuntu-website-content:
assignee: Tanya Edwards (tanya-edwards) → Inayaili de León (yaili)
Robin Winslow (nottrobin)
information type: Public → Public Security
information type: Public Security → Private Security
information type: Private Security → Public
Peter Mahnke (peterm-ubuntu)
Changed in ubuntu-website-content:
assignee: Inayaili de León (yaili) → Graham Bancroft (gbancroft-canonical)
importance: Undecided → Medium
Peter Mahnke (peterm-ubuntu)
affects: ubuntu-website-content → ubuntu-brand-guidelines
Barry McGee (barry-mcgee)
Changed in ubuntu-brand-guidelines:
assignee: Graham Bancroft (gbancroft-canonical) → Barry McGee (barry-mcgee)
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Peter Mahnke (peterm-ubuntu)
Changed in ubuntu-brand-guidelines:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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