Search interface design and usability
8 Dec 2009 - 8:48am
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Sam McLeod
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2 very well known authors are; Jakob Nielsen and Steve Krug.
If you need academic resources, let me know.
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I found this article by John Ferrara to be very helpful before I started
working on Search.
http://boxesandarrows.com/view/search-behavior
He's got a couple others on Boxes & Arrows worth reading as well.
anne
new-bounces at ixda.org wrote on 12/08/2009 12:48:34 AM:
> I have to do a presentation (at very short notice for a job interview)
> on improvements to a search interface for clinical data. Does anybody
> know of any useful resources that focus on the design and usability
> of search interfaces. Thanks
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pick up a copy of peter morville's Ambient Findability ... it's a quick
read chocked full of great information.
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http://www.amazon.com/Ambient-Findability-Peter-Morville/dp/0596007655/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260223795&sr=8-1
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On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Sam McLeod <hello at kitcreative.co.uk> wrote:
> I have to do a presentation (at very short notice for a job interview)
> on improvements to a search interface for clinical data. Does anybody
> know of any useful resources that focus on the design and usability
> of search interfaces. Thanks
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Even better, Marti Hearst has published her recent book on search user
interfaces online!
http://searchuserinterfaces.com/
Marti is responsible for the amazing faceted navigation project called
Flamenco:
http://flamenco.berkeley.edu/pubs.html
> new-bounces at ixda.org wrote on 12/08/2009 12:48:34 AM:
>
> > I have to do a presentation (at very short notice for a job interview)
> > on improvements to a search interface for clinical data. Does anybody
> > know of any useful resources that focus on the design and usability
> > of search interfaces. Thanks
>
>
Smashing magazine published a good article on this very subject today:
Principles Of Effective Search In E-Commerce Design:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/08/principles-of-effective-e-commerce-search/
HTH
Akex
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A few of articles on UX Matters
Faceted Search - Best Practices
http://uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2009/09/best-practices-for-designing-facete
d-search-filters.php
Make More Money: Best Practices for Ads in Search Results: Part 1 and 2
http://uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2009/10/make-more-money-best-practices-for-
ads-in-search-results-part-1.php
http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2009/11/make-more-money-best-practices-
for-ads-in-search-results-part-2.php
Starting from Zero: Winning Strategies for No Search Results Pages
http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2009/02/starting-from-zero-winning-stra
tegies-for-no-search-results-pages.php
Jarred Spool has published too
Producing Great Search Results: Harder than It Looks, Part 1 and 2
http://www.uie.com/articles/search_results/
http://www.uie.com/articles/search_results_part2/
Dimiter Simov
Lucrat Ltd. www.lucrat.net
Netage Solutions Inc. www.netagesolutions.com
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I have to do a presentation (at very short notice for a job interview)
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know of any useful resources that focus on the design and usability
of search interfaces. Thanks
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You bet... specifically for search interfaces, you should have a look
at Marti Hearst's book "Search User Interfaces"
http://searchuserinterfaces.com/
Her book is also freely available (electronic) on that website...
which is cool, since it is a subject I am diving into at the moment!
good luck
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I'm an avid Smashing Magazine fan and saw this post today. It may be
helpful. Good luck!
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/08/principles-of-effective-e-commerce-search/
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I found a couple of these patterns helpful. I can speak, in
particular, about the "Deactivate Fields" patterns used in the
context of a report generation user interface. I added several of my
own twists to heighten the usability even more, but it was a nice
start.
http://www.tim-wellhausen.de/papers/UIForSearching.pdf
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I found a couple of these patterns helpful. I can speak, in
particular, about the "Deactivate Fields" patterns used in the
context of a report generation user interface. I added several of my
own twists to heighten the usability even more, but it was a nice
start.
http://www.tim-wellhausen.de/papers/UIForSearching.pdf
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Here are a three good articles on search from A List Apart:
http://www.alistapart.com/issues/292
The first one includes a nice spreadsheet to measure the relevancy
and precision of your top keywords.
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