At Prism, we developed a search component called Jump to Event for searching artist events. Initially it was a side project by Luke, our lead engineer, addressing an immediate client need.

It took off! 🚀

The component's time to activation, stickiness, and overall adoption spiked remaining steady months after release.

During this time we collected design feedback & prioritized it as usual in the backlog; but, there was no future designation on the roadmap to build it out any further.

So, I took it upon myself to look into the data further exploring the landscape of command palettes as product features taking the best-of-the-best.

I love this one from @pacocoursey on Github https://github.com/pacocoursey/cmdk… but needed it in Angular (per our framework).

The question I was answering:

This allowed me to narrow down all the ideas into a focused approach. Speed on a large surface and the entire user base was the improvement here.

Taking the data, the design, and acting on it I knew I could spin up a prototype using Cursor AI & Claude in no time. My aim was to expand the conversation and put something on the roadmap for 2025.

With the Angular knowledge and finessing the assistant to help me, I was able to connect a mock Google Spreadsheet database to the component, include routing, and provide an in-real-life example of interactions all to gain buy in.

With a solid foundation, technical documentation, and rallying cross-functional teams around an idea I'm confident this will be a future endeavor by the business (likely with an AI search hook).