Design a Perfect Search Box
<i>Always accompany search box with magnifying-glass icon</i><p>After, what, twenty-five years of exposure to this particular symbolism - or did it use to bee binoculars? - I still struggle to make the connection whenever I see it. Magnify what? Zoom where? It always takes me a second or two to get, many, many times a day.<p>My mental model of a search goes the other way: I wish to zoom out, get a bird's eye perspective.<p>The loupe iconograhy may be great and perfect. I may be the only human not to get it. Am I?