Put search front and center on the dashboard.

Tristan Kirn
Tristan Kirn Member Posts: 2 ✭✭
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I think one of the fundamental issues that logos often gets slightly off with their marketing is the assumption that people want correct information, that's why your product not Google should be the go-to. However, I'd like to suggest that it's more because Google is simply more user-friendly. People would rather use something easier, even if it has incorrect information than something complicated that is more trustworthy. Think how easy it is. 1. If I want to search with Google (I click Chrome, the cursor is ready to type). When I click logos, I first have to navigate to search, then type? Why not put the search bar front and centre as you open Logos with the cursor ready to type? That's a 1 step process - I have added a rough mockup for you to look at. As Logos opens up, the search is front and centre with the cursor ready to type on the dashboard.

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  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 13,613 ✭✭✭

    Excellent idea! I don't use Dashboard but I'd bet many do. And have a question, right off.

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • Winston Wiebe
    Winston Wiebe Member Posts: 10 ✭✭

    Love this

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,401

    A caution - in the last few years the forums have been filled with requests for building search where a simple lookup is more appropriate. There is a parallel problem with people thinking they are searching when they use a navigation box. Is it desirable to put front and center a feature that is misused/abused repeatedly? I see the logic and understand the impulse for this change, but I'd give it a long, hard look.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • David Palmer
    David Palmer Member Posts: 54 ✭✭

    Excellent idea.

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  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 13,613 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1350095#Comment_1350095

    The example shows passage or topic. Isn't that kind of Factbook-ish? Just thinking about your comment.

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,401

    The example I like to use is a user complained that a Bible search didn't give him the wife of Noah … my reaction was I wouldn't know the wording in the translation to know what to search for … and I wouldn't spend the time figuring it out because I can look it up in Factbook or in the genealogy charts. It reminded me of when I was learning when to use the encyclopedia, the dictionary, or the almanac. Unfortunately, the internet has blurred the distinctions making it more difficult when you need to think in terms of the distinction.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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