Autocomplete Is Awesome
/via http://geek-and-poke.com/geekandpoke/2014/9/13/simply-explained Well, is Auto-Complete awesome? Lets look at it, starting with the above Things that are hard to spell : Take my name for example — “ Paolini-Subramanya ”. The way I spell it is “ P. A.O. and a whole bunch more ”, which is just about sufficient for the restaurant to look up the reservation. Saving on Typing : And, conversely, when they’re taking my name down at the hair salon (for a beard trim . have you seen my head?), it’s again just about the same. The first time around, though, involved around 2 minutes of chaos, including me finally typing in my own name. Improve Suggestions : Ok, now we’re getting into Search, but this can really help, especially when the user doesn’t really know what they’re searching for. Decrease Negative Results : More Search, but this time around decreasing the amount of un-necessary, irrelevant, (and sometimes wrong ) results that you get. This...