design patterns

3 Quick Design Patterns for Better Faceted Search

3 Quick Design Patterns for Better Faceted Search

By Vegard Sandvold on October 12, 2009 | 6 Responses

Facet design may seem like a trivial task at first. After all, it’s just a list of links representing a range of facet choices. By clicking on one choice after another users simply refine and narrow down the search results. Sort them by popularity (frequency) and show those neat hit counts on each facet... Read More »

Search Design Patterns for Ideas and Inspiration

Search Design Patterns for Ideas and Inspiration

By Vegard Sandvold on January 26, 2009 | 5 Responses

If your work involves user experience in any way, you should be familiar with design patterns. Bringing patterns into your design will help you define and solve common problems related to user interaction and information architecture. Sharing patterns with your team help you establish a common vocabulary, in turn making it easier to convert... Read More »

Coverflow Makes No Sense for Search

By Vegard Sandvold on January 19, 2009 | 7 Responses

Coverflow, like any other popular design pattern, is widely used and abused. It’s bling for your iPod and MP3 collection. It’s makes file browsing all fun and games. But please, keep it away from my search results. Just because it looks good doesn’t mean it works good. I seriously doubt that search result coverflows... Read More »