Learn Design for iOS Development by Sian Morson

Author:Sian Morson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781430263647
Publisher: Apress

Figure 5-4. The Phone app’s search feature

iOS 7 now offers users the ability to search their devices directly from the springboard. Once initiated, the user can begin to type a query and the results of the search are populated below. This Spotlight search features a cancel button to the right of the search field whether or not the user has typed a query. However, in the Mail app, the search bar is persistent from within any mailbox. The cancel button will only appear once the user begins to type the query. Either of these patterns is acceptable. But naturally, if your application is an e-mail app, I would follow the Mail pattern closely to avoid having users relearn how to perform this task specifically for your app.

Some other search-related patterns are, in my opinion, fairly obvious but I will state them here anyway. Listing your results dynamically even as a user is typing is a nice touch as is segmenting them where necessary so that users can easily scan through for what they need. This is handled nicely in the iOS 7 Spotlight search. Search results are listed directly below the search box and show users the location of the results on the device and in alphabetical order. Thus, a “seri” search will yield results in Events, Mail, Messages, and anywhere else there is a matching term as is shown in Figure 5-5.

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