cbednarski/skyrim-alchemy — Issue #3: Workbench match overrides search term
Author: cbednarski
Created: 2011-12-28 13:36:49+00:00
State: open

If the user has searched for something and adds an item to the workbench, the workbench filter kicks in an overrides the search term.

This has a pleasant side effect when the user searches for an item by name because there is typically only one match. For example, if I search for "bee", there is only one item in the list. When I add the item and the workbench filter kicks in, all matching items are displayed.

However, if I search for an effect and add an item to the workbench, the list of items on the left is diluted with items that don't match the search.

I think there are two UX improvements that can make this less confusing:

1. Highlight matching search terms in the ingredient list
2. Sort the list so search hits show up first (then sort alphabetically)

This will retain the desired behavior for named matches and improve the behavior for effect matches overall.