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3 Quick Design Patterns for Better Faceted Search
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 »
Mindless Recall Kills Faceted Search
Facets add value to the search user experience by helping users refine the usual ranked, best-first list of documents on a search page. The quality of faceted search, however, is at risk when search result precision is traded for recall. Users should ideally be able to find all documents relevant for a given query... Read More »
What Is Your Approach to Information Retrieval?
When working with search user experience, it’s often necessary to discover a suitable information strategy for an organization or business. An information strategy can potentially have a huge influence on how the search for information is facilitated. Are the users in question generally seeking precise answers to quick questions, or are they seeking to... Read More »
Enterprise Search – Information Accessibility by Design or Technology?
You’re the user experience designer hired in to give shape to a new enterprise search solution. Your client has already decided upon a technology vendor, and has purchased a license. The responsibility now rests with you to provide employees or customers with the best possible information access. Will you design the solution around the... Read More »
Search Design Patterns for Ideas and Inspiration
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 »
Concept Composition with Faceted Search
Faceted search is what you get by combining simple keyword search with a faceted classification scheme. You won’t find it in Google’s web search (except for one of the Google Labs projects, perhaps), but almost every enterprise search project I work on involves facets in one way or another.
Think of facets as properties or... Read More »
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