I Love Search Information Architecture
At the heart of every great enterprise search user experience lies a clear and concise information architecture. Why – because search without structure is nothing but a disheartening solitary struggle to make sense of chaos. In order to implement a successful and sustainable search information architecture, you need to identify and design around relevant information [...]
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 choice, [...]
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 [...]
