Search - Empty states

[adyhoran1]

What

An empty state pattern for when using a set of filters or searches return no results

Why

• GOV.UK's advanced search returns an empty state, along with Register trainee teachers and GOV.UK Family Experience (in Alpha)

• Doesn't already exist in the GOV.UK Design System

Anything else

"When you leave the empty state empty, you are basically telling your users what there isn’t. You are missing out on the opportunity to tell them what there is.
For example, what could have been here, what they could gain from it, and what they can do to get things moving.”

• Kinneret Yifrah

"People largely abandon applications for reasons which are within our control: because they do not perceive value from interacting with the software.” Patrick Mckenzie