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Is there a good UI pattern for this sort of specific select case?

There is a search field for labels/tags. The user has 3 options they can select from to refine their search. These options are grouped into two sets.

Set 1: 2 options ['Case sensitivity' & 'Starts with'], the user can select one or both of these options.

Set 2: 1 option [Switch to 'Regex' syntax].

The user can use either or both options from Set 1 but not Set 2 or they can use Set 2 but not any of the options from set 1.

Essentialy it boils down to you can use THESE [Set 1] OR you can use THIS [Set 2]. Set 1 acts like a set of checkboxes whereas Set 2 is more like a radio button.

Without using checkboxes and a radio button how else could i best provide this functionality in a UI that still looks and feels intuitive.

Here is the current design: The icons don't really feel standard aside from the case senstivity so i'm not sure how much value they add:

Current design in product

Here is my proposed solution: Using switches and lables to make things clearer but would still require a level of experiential learning and interacting with the components to figure out how it works.

Proposed solution

FYI: Ideally I would usability test this new design but I haven't been afford the time to do this which is less than ideal!

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    Personally, I dislike the icons in the second example. Why have them at all? To me they just add more clutter and no additional benefit to the also present text. Without the icons, it looks much cleaner to me.
    – Uwe Keim
    Commented May 25, 2022 at 7:34
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    Very late to get back to this but what you suggested is actually what I ended up doing. The icons served no purpose so we simply left them out!
    – DannyW86
    Commented Sep 6, 2022 at 21:08
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    Thanks a lot, @DannyW86, I feel honored 🙂
    – Uwe Keim
    Commented Sep 7, 2022 at 5:23
  • Do you have some user or usage data on this now to help inform the better pattern to use?
    – Michael Lai
    Commented Aug 10, 2023 at 23:19

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