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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories User Interface
Created by Guest
Created on May 30, 2025

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Standardize the position and behavior of the search bar across all views by keeping it consistently on the left and fully clickable, improving usability and alignment with common UI patterns.

This change reduces user confusion and friction by making the search functionality predictable, discoverable, and easy to interact with across the entire platform. Consistency in UI placement supports faster navigation, reduces misclicks, and aligns with widely accepted usability norms and ultimately improving the user experience. Developers, SREs, and platform engineers who frequently navigate between views will benefit from the improved efficiency and reduced frustration.

How would it work?

The search bar activation icon and text input field would be placed consistently on the left-hand side across all views, matching the homepage layout. The entire search bar area should be clickable to activate typing, rather than just a small icon. This update would follow standard UI/UX conventions, making the behavior feel more natural and expected.

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  • Guest
    Jun 12, 2025

    Discussed this with UX Design lead @Julien DEVEAUX who provided the following context:

    That’s a Carbon migration artifact. In Carbon the search is on the right side and in a collapsed state by default (I would love if it could be opened by default but I’m not sure it won’t conflict with other Carbon table components). The homepage uses the old Instana pattern we had (search bar on the left, already opened) which is a more common design pattern. With the Carbon transition it will be on the right on data tables https://carbondesignsystem.com/components/data-table/usage/

    As per the feedback above, this is a 'wont fix' idea unfortunately.

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