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[Enhancement]: Investigate improved search bar functionality #484

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What should change?

Recent user research has highlighted some ares that could be improved when using the search bar in the tech docs. This ticket is to define a spike to look at the detailed user research, analyse the search functionality and define a plan to improve it.

headlines from the user research are:

  • most participants used the search function to find content, rather than the side navigation bar.
  • participants always used short and simple search terms such as “VPN” or “AWS account”.
  • participants did not usually find the search results and snippets very useful when deciding if the pages contained the info they needed.
  • there appeared to be a bug in the search where it occasionally returned no results, but if the same search was repeated it would return results.

User need

The user research outlined above, there is a full report which is being shared when available

Proposed solution

To create a group of tickets that will resolve some or all of the issues, or alternatively suggest a new/improved way to implement a search function

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