diff --git a/src/pages/create/index.tsx b/src/pages/create/index.tsx
index 897ebec..e28f698 100644
--- a/src/pages/create/index.tsx
+++ b/src/pages/create/index.tsx
@@ -28,12 +28,12 @@ import {
 import { appPrivateRoutes } from '../../routes'
 import {
   CreateSignatureEventContent,
+  KeyboardCode,
   Meta,
   ProfileMetadata,
   SignedEvent,
   User,
-  UserRole,
-  KeyboardCode
+  UserRole
 } from '../../types'
 import {
   encryptArrayBuffer,
@@ -52,8 +52,7 @@ import {
   updateUsersAppData,
   uploadToFileStorage,
   DEFAULT_TOOLBOX,
-  settleAllFullfilfedPromises,
-  debounceCustom
+  settleAllFullfilfedPromises
 } from '../../utils'
 import { Container } from '../../components/Container'
 import fileListStyles from '../../components/FileList/style.module.scss'
@@ -79,12 +78,10 @@ import { getSigitFile, SigitFile } from '../../utils/file.ts'
 import { generateTimestamp } from '../../utils/opentimestamps.ts'
 import { Autocomplete } from '@mui/lab'
 import _, { truncate } from 'lodash'
-import nostrDefaultImage from '../../assets/images/nostr-logo.png'
 import * as React from 'react'
+import { AvatarIconButton } from '../../components/UserAvatarIconButton'
 
-interface FoundUsers extends Event {
-  npub: string
-}
+type FoundUser = Event & { npub: string }
 
 export const CreatePage = () => {
   const navigate = useNavigate()
@@ -126,19 +123,26 @@ export const CreatePage = () => {
   const [drawnFiles, setDrawnFiles] = useState<SigitFile[]>([])
   const [parsingPdf, setIsParsing] = useState<boolean>(false)
 
+  const searchFieldRef = useRef<HTMLInputElement>(null)
+
   const [selectedTool, setSelectedTool] = useState<DrawTool>()
 
-  const [foundUsers, setFoundUsers] = useState<FoundUsers[]>([])
+  const [foundUsers, setFoundUsers] = useState<FoundUser[]>([])
   const [searchUsersLoading, setSearchUsersLoading] = useState<boolean>(false)
+  const [pastedUserNpubOrNip05, setPastedUserNpubOrNip05] = useState<
+    string | undefined
+  >()
 
   /**
    * Fired when user select
    */
   const handleSearchUserChange = useCallback(
-    (_event: React.SyntheticEvent, value: string | FoundUsers | null) => {
+    (_event: React.SyntheticEvent, value: string | FoundUser | null) => {
       if (typeof value === 'object') {
-        const ndkEvent = value as FoundUsers
-        setUserInput(hexToNpub(ndkEvent.pubkey))
+        const ndkEvent = value as FoundUser
+        if (ndkEvent?.pubkey) {
+          setUserInput(hexToNpub(ndkEvent.pubkey))
+        }
       }
     },
     [setUserInput]
@@ -166,13 +170,36 @@ export const CreatePage = () => {
         [...relaySet.write]
       )
       .then((events) => {
-        const fineFilteredEvents = events
-          .filter((event) => event.content.includes(`"name":"${searchTerm}`))
-          .map((event) => ({
-            ...event,
-            npub: hexToNpub(event.pubkey)
-          }))
+        console.log('events', events)
 
+        const fineFilteredEvents: FoundUser[] = events
+          .filter((event) => {
+            const lowercaseContent = event.content.toLowerCase()
+
+            return (
+              lowercaseContent.includes(
+                `"name":"${searchTerm.toLowerCase()}"`
+              ) ||
+              lowercaseContent.includes(
+                `"display_name":"${searchTerm.toLowerCase()}"`
+              ) ||
+              lowercaseContent.includes(
+                `"username":"${searchTerm.toLowerCase()}"`
+              ) ||
+              lowercaseContent.includes(`"nip05":"${searchTerm.toLowerCase()}"`)
+            )
+          })
+          .reduce((uniqueEvents: FoundUser[], event: Event) => {
+            if (!uniqueEvents.some((e: Event) => e.pubkey === event.pubkey)) {
+              uniqueEvents.push({
+                ...event,
+                npub: hexToNpub(event.pubkey)
+              })
+            }
+            return uniqueEvents
+          }, [])
+
+        console.log('fineFilteredEvents', fineFilteredEvents)
         setFoundUsers(fineFilteredEvents)
       })
       .catch((error) => {
@@ -183,13 +210,16 @@ export const CreatePage = () => {
       })
   }
 
-  // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
-  const debouncedHandleSearchUsers = useCallback(
-    debounceCustom((value: string) => {
-      if (foundUsers.length === 0) handleSearchUsers(value)
-    }, 1000),
-    []
-  )
+  useEffect(() => {
+    setTimeout(() => {
+      if (foundUsers.length) {
+        if (searchFieldRef.current) {
+          searchFieldRef.current.blur()
+          searchFieldRef.current.focus()
+        }
+      }
+    })
+  }, [foundUsers])
 
   const handleInputKeyDown = (event: React.KeyboardEvent<HTMLDivElement>) => {
     if (
@@ -197,7 +227,17 @@ export const CreatePage = () => {
       event.code === KeyboardCode.NumpadEnter
     ) {
       event.preventDefault()
-      handleAddUser()
+
+      // If pasted user npub of nip05 is present, we just add the user to the counterparts list
+      if (pastedUserNpubOrNip05) {
+        setUserInput(pastedUserNpubOrNip05)
+        setPastedUserNpubOrNip05(undefined)
+      } else {
+        // Otherwize if search already provided some results, user must manually click the search button
+        if (!foundUsers.length) {
+          handleSearchUsers()
+        }
+      }
     }
   }
 
@@ -296,7 +336,7 @@ export const CreatePage = () => {
     }
   }, [usersPubkey])
 
-  const handleAddUser = async () => {
+  const handleAddUser = useCallback(async () => {
     setError(undefined)
 
     const addUser = (pubkey: string) => {
@@ -338,6 +378,8 @@ export const CreatePage = () => {
 
     const input = userInput.toLowerCase()
 
+    setUserSearchInput('')
+
     if (input.startsWith('npub')) {
       return handleAddNpubUser(input)
     }
@@ -387,7 +429,20 @@ export const CreatePage = () => {
       }
       return
     }
-  }
+  }, [
+    userInput,
+    userRole,
+    setError,
+    setUsers,
+    setUserSearchInput,
+    setIsLoading,
+    setLoadingSpinnerDesc,
+    setUserInput
+  ])
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (userInput?.length > 0) handleAddUser()
+  }, [handleAddUser, userInput])
 
   const handleUserRoleChange = (role: UserRole, pubkey: string) => {
     setUsers((prevUsers) =>
@@ -876,10 +931,57 @@ export const CreatePage = () => {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Handles the user search textfield change
+   * If it's not valid npub or nip05, search will be automatically triggered
+   */
+  const handleSearchAutocompleteTextfieldChange = async (
+    e: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement | HTMLTextAreaElement>
+  ) => {
+    const value = e.target.value
+
+    const disarmAddOnEnter = () => {
+      setPastedUserNpubOrNip05(undefined)
+    }
+
+    // Seems like it's npub format
+    if (value.startsWith('npub')) {
+      // We will try to convert npub to hex and if it's successfull that means
+      // npub is valid
+      const validHexPubkey = npubToHex(value)
+
+      if (validHexPubkey) {
+        // Arm the manual user npub add after enter is hit, we don't want to trigger search
+        setPastedUserNpubOrNip05(value)
+      } else {
+        disarmAddOnEnter()
+      }
+    } else if (value.includes('@')) {
+      // Seems like it's nip05 format
+      const { pubkey } = await queryNip05(value).catch((err) => {
+        console.error(err)
+        return { pubkey: null }
+      })
+
+      if (pubkey) {
+        // Arm the manual user npub add after enter is hit, we don't want to trigger search
+        setPastedUserNpubOrNip05(hexToNpub(pubkey))
+      } else {
+        disarmAddOnEnter()
+      }
+    } else {
+      // Disarm the add user on enter hit, and trigger search after 1 second
+      disarmAddOnEnter()
+    }
+
+    setUserSearchInput(value)
+  }
+
   const parseContent = (event: Event) => {
     try {
       return JSON.parse(event.content)
     } catch (e) {
+      return undefined
       console.error(e)
     }
   }
@@ -951,18 +1053,25 @@ export const CreatePage = () => {
               <div className={styles.addCounterpart}>
                 <div className={styles.inputWrapper}>
                   <Autocomplete
-                    id="country-select-demo"
                     sx={{ width: 300 }}
                     options={foundUsers}
                     onChange={handleSearchUserChange}
+                    inputValue={userSearchInput}
+                    disableClearable
+                    openOnFocus
                     autoHighlight
                     freeSolo
                     filterOptions={(x) => x}
                     getOptionLabel={(option) => {
-                      let label = (option as FoundUsers).npub
+                      let label: string = (option as FoundUser).npub
 
-                      const contentJson = parseContent(option as FoundUsers)
-                      label = contentJson.name
+                      const contentJson = parseContent(option as FoundUser)
+
+                      if (contentJson?.name) {
+                        label = contentJson.name
+                      } else {
+                        label = option as string
+                      }
 
                       return label
                     }}
@@ -978,17 +1087,31 @@ export const CreatePage = () => {
                           {...optionProps}
                           key={option.pubkey}
                         >
-                          <img
-                            loading="lazy"
-                            width="60"
-                            src={contentJson.picture || nostrDefaultImage}
-                            onError={({ currentTarget }) =>
-                              (currentTarget.src = nostrDefaultImage)
-                            }
-                            alt=""
+                          <AvatarIconButton
+                            src={contentJson.picture}
+                            hexKey={option.pubkey}
+                            color="inherit"
+                            sx={{
+                              padding: '0 10px 0 0'
+                            }}
                           />
-                          {contentJson.name} (
-                          {truncate(option.npub, { length: 16 })})
+
+                          <div>
+                            {contentJson.name}{' '}
+                            {usersPubkey === option.pubkey ? (
+                              <span
+                                style={{
+                                  color: '#4c82a3',
+                                  fontWeight: 'bold'
+                                }}
+                              >
+                                Me
+                              </span>
+                            ) : (
+                              ''
+                            )}{' '}
+                            ({truncate(option.npub, { length: 16 })})
+                          </div>
                         </Box>
                       )
                     }}
@@ -996,45 +1119,14 @@ export const CreatePage = () => {
                       <TextField
                         {...params}
                         key={params.id}
-                        label="Search counterparts"
-                        value={userSearchInput}
-                        // onChange={(e) => setUserSearchInput(e.target.value)}
-                        onChange={(e) => {
-                          const value = e.target.value
-                          setUserSearchInput(value)
-                          debouncedHandleSearchUsers(value)
-                        }}
+                        inputRef={searchFieldRef}
+                        label="Add/Search counterpart"
+                        onKeyDown={handleInputKeyDown}
+                        onChange={handleSearchAutocompleteTextfieldChange}
                       />
                     )}
                   />
                 </div>
-                <Button
-                  disabled={!userSearchInput || searchUsersLoading}
-                  onClick={() => handleSearchUsers()}
-                  variant="contained"
-                  aria-label="Add"
-                  className={styles.counterpartToggleButton}
-                >
-                  {searchUsersLoading ? (
-                    <CircularProgress size={14} />
-                  ) : (
-                    <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faSearch} />
-                  )}
-                </Button>
-              </div>
-
-              <div className={styles.addCounterpart}>
-                <div className={styles.inputWrapper}>
-                  <TextField
-                    fullWidth
-                    placeholder="Add counterpart"
-                    value={userInput}
-                    onChange={(e) => setUserInput(e.target.value)}
-                    onKeyDown={handleInputKeyDown}
-                    disabled={searchUsersLoading}
-                    error={!!error}
-                  />
-                </div>
                 <Button
                   onClick={() =>
                     setUserRole(
@@ -1051,15 +1143,31 @@ export const CreatePage = () => {
                     icon={userRole === UserRole.signer ? faPen : faEye}
                   />
                 </Button>
-                <Button
-                  disabled={!userInput}
-                  onClick={handleAddUser}
-                  variant="contained"
-                  aria-label="Add"
-                  className={styles.counterpartToggleButton}
-                >
-                  <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faPlus} />
-                </Button>
+
+                {!pastedUserNpubOrNip05 ? (
+                  <Button
+                    disabled={!userSearchInput || searchUsersLoading}
+                    onClick={() => handleSearchUsers()}
+                    variant="contained"
+                    aria-label="Add"
+                    className={styles.counterpartToggleButton}
+                  >
+                    {searchUsersLoading ? (
+                      <CircularProgress size={14} />
+                    ) : (
+                      <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faSearch} />
+                    )}
+                  </Button>
+                ) : (
+                  <Button
+                    onClick={handleAddUser}
+                    variant="contained"
+                    aria-label="Add"
+                    className={styles.counterpartToggleButton}
+                  >
+                    <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faPlus} />
+                  </Button>
+                )}
               </div>
 
               <div className={`${styles.paperGroup} ${styles.toolbox}`}>