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Decision Cards

Make interface decisions you can defend in any design review.

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Suggestions or Results

Does the person already know what they’re looking for?

Use Suggestions when

The catalog is huge and unknown to the person searching, like a marketplace. Helping them phrase the query narrows a space they can’t see.

Signs it fits

  • Open, unbounded catalog
  • People don’t know item names
  • Exploratory browsing
  • Wording changes results a lot

Use Results when

People look for something they’ve seen before: a file, a customer, a ticket. The best suggestion is the item itself, opened with Enter.

Signs it fits

  • Known-item retrieval
  • Finite content the team owns
  • Items have memorable names
  • Repeat users who want speed
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The rule

Once the query means something, show the thing, not a guess at the question.

From the lesson “Search: results, not suggestions”

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Product for Designers · Q1 2027

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