Usability improvements

[Brian Peacock]

Working with a Lumia 920 is great but two things that lets it down are the lack of a global search (like Windows 8 or Apple's Spotlight) and the sort order of the Settings page.

How many times have you tried to find something in Settings and can't remember exactly where it is? Setting it A-Z, would allow the user to get used to the position of options even when new features become available. Also some things are hidden within sub pages in Settings so it's hit or miss if you get to the right place first time. Global search would improve usability as we then won't have to manually dig about and adding it to the search button at the bottom would likely make it the first choice when you want to quickly get somewhere in the phone. There's room for a phone search icon there as currently there are only three, namely 'Scout', 'music' and 'vision'.

 

[N_LaRUE]

I suggest you post in this thread since that's where they like these types of things.

http://forums.windowscentral.com/windows-phone-8/210477-41.htm

 

[teckris]

Working with a Lumia 920 is great but two things that lets it down are the lack of a global search (like Windows 8 or Apple's Spotlight) and the sort order of the Settings page.

How many times have you tried to find something in Settings and can't remember exactly where it is? Setting it A-Z, would allow the user to get used to the position of options even when new features become available. Also some things are hidden within sub pages in Settings so it's hit or miss if you get to the right place first time. Global search would improve usability as we then won't have to manually dig about and adding it to the search button at the bottom would likely make it the first choice when you want to quickly get somewhere in the phone. There's room for a phone search icon there as currently there are only three, namely 'Scout', 'music' and 'vision'.

Unify Universal Search | Windows Phone Apps+Games Store (भारत) try this, it will come handy for you

 

[Brian Peacock]

Thanks for the link. I installed it and it is an improvement although as the developer mentions, only 6 settings are searchable so things like themes or ringtones do not show up in the results.