Brand new search experience is live! Feedback please

We've rolled out a new search experience on Equipboard! 🚀 The previous search results page was okay, but there was lots of room for improvement.

Nailing down search on an app like Equipboard is challenging, because users can search for many types of things - gear, artists, brands, etc. We took inspiration from websites we're fans of that have a similar challenge, like Tripadvisor and Huckberry.

The new search features a tabbed layout, gear filters, and improved result cards.

We hope you like our re-imagined view of it. Like all new features, we expect some bugs and quirks and things we may have overlooked, so please, all feedback welcome!

I played around with it and it's cool. Great for a deep dive or just for doom scroll procrastination. Dont get rid of the no-frills old search bar though. 9 times out of 10 I just need a quick hit. I start typing, the drop down pops up with predictions and I get where I'm going fast.

I dig it, nice work!

Ultimate compliment: the morning you rolled it out, I put search through its paces on laptop and mobile, then tried to remember how it used to look/work, and... for a few moments... I couldn't.

I think that's a good sign.

A few notes:

1. Band results need thumbnails like the other category results. It's weird that bands are text-only right now.

2. Add album results. When I search for "Nevermind" I still don't get Nevermind.

3. The Top Matches results could use thumbnails of some sort. It's like the thing you're most likely to be after is quietly whispering to you, while all the categorized results below are shouting like Billy Mays.

Dont get rid of the no-frills old search bar though. 9 times out of 10 I just need a quick hit. I start typing, the drop down pops up with predictions and I get where I'm going fast.

Definitely not getting rid of that! Most people search that way also. The full-page search experience is more for deep diving, filtering through gear more carefully, etc.

Band results need thumbnails

Agreed, will add that.

Add album results.

Yes! We will, this is a big one.

The Top Matches results could use thumbnails of some sort.

Okay, will try to make top matches more obvious.

Glad you're liking it overall! :)

oh, it definitely kills it for deep dives, I got sucked in for over an hour

Glad you're liking it overall! :)

Most definitely.

The new design feels like: "Wait... what changed? Isn't this how it's always worked? How could I have ever found anything if it DIDN'T work exactly like this?"

Thank you for resisting the dark urge to try and radically innovate search engine page results for no good reason. You've achieved a result that is the right kind of invisible.