5. Search & Filter: Topics
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Types of Searches
Key Considerations
Search Initiation and Navigation
Results Presentation
Relevancy, Personalization and Taking Action
Questions?
6. Types of Searches
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How do people search?
Search Engines
Embedded Site Search
E-Commerce Search
Intranet/Local Search
Online, mobile, desktop
applications, kiosk, phone
interfaces, voice interfaces,
asking a live person
What are they looking for?
A phone number
A sweater
A plane ticket
A document
A song
A person
Any piece of information
7. Types of Searches
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I want to…
Find a specific piece of information: There is one answer.
A zip/postal code, the temperature in a location, a specific person
Find and compare pieces of information: There is more than one
answer.
Movie times, a type of person, restaurants, books on a topic
Gain a level of understanding, do research and make a
decision:
The answer depends on the person doing the search.
Where should I go on vacation? What do these symptoms mean?
What is the best…
8. When designing a search interface, consider:
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Who is visiting? What do they need?
What makes audience members different? Are there any
important characteristics about them to consider?
Have they been here before? What have they done? Do we know
anything about them? Can that be used to make the results more
relevant?
How did they get here? What lead up to this interaction? What is
driving them?
What are they looking for? How will they expect to find it? (Search
Terms)? Where will they want to look?
What do they want to see? What content or functionality would be
most useful relevant to them? Will they need any related information?
9. When designing a search interface, consider:
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Who is visiting? What do they need?
How will they know when they’ve found what they are
looking for? How will they compare results? What are their decision
making attributes? What’s important/most relevant to them?
How will they want to interact? What would the ideal interaction
be? Will they sort, refine results, zoom in/out, navigate topically,
compare, “pogo-stick” (J Spool), save, favorite, rate, comment, share,
email, print?
How will they use this information? What will they need to do
with it?
What will they do after? How can that be supported?
Will they be back again? Will they need the information from this
search?
Would they want search results like this on a regular basis?
10. What can be done? What will YOU do?
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What can be done to understand the visitor?
Search logs, site stats, analytics
Site survey/customer survey
User research: User interviews, contextual inquiry, observation
Usability testing: before, after, and during
How early can you do these things? How often? Can they be part of an
ongoing process?
11. What can be done? What will YOU do?
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Making it happen…
What is it? What are the priorities? How do you determine priorities?
What should be done in the future?
What can be done right now?
What can be done with the technology? What can’t?
Who are you working with? How can you collaborate?
Is your search effective? How will you measure success?
How will search relevancy be monitored and improved on a regular
basis?
12. Interface & Interaction Design Checklist:
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Home (pre-search):
What will be shown?
Most recent searches?
Most recently clicked through on?
Most popular?
Recommended searches?
13. Interface & Interaction Checklist:
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Search Box:
Placement, priority, design, labeling
Focus, return, tabbing
Pre-population,
Type ahead, spell check, interactivity, related searches
“Codified” searches
Search Terms:
What terms should be anticipated?
Will there be a spell check/did you mean feature?
14. Interface & Interaction Checklist:
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Display of Results:
What content/media will be displayed?
Will there be content available on hover?
Will the content be expandable/collapsible?
Will related content be shown?
Can a click through be avoided by showing the right information in
the results?
How will the results be organized?
How will the results be prioritized?
How will they be filtered and sorted?
Will topical navigation or faceted navigation be available?
15. Interface & Interaction Checklist:
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Manipulation of Results/Interaction with Results:
Sort, filter, zoom in/out, navigate
Organize, Drag & drop,
Take action, save, share, email print
Rate, comment, contribute, suggest
Show similar/more like this, remove
Browse, hover, click through/view
How many results per page, pagination
How will the content load/flow in?
Type ahead search
Faceted navigation and filters
Pagination options
Results “Zoom in” and “zoom out”
Options for browsing from results to details and back
Type ahead search
Faceted navigation and filters
Pagination options
Results “Zoom in” and “zoom out”
Options for browsing from results to details and back
Type ahead search
Faceted navigation and filters
Pagination options
Results “Zoom in” and “zoom out”
Options for browsing from results to details and back
Type ahead search
Faceted navigation and filters
Pagination options
Results “Zoom in” and “zoom out”
Options for browsing from results to details and back
Type ahead search
Faceted navigation and filters
Pagination options
Results “Zoom in” and “zoom out”
Options for browsing from results to details and back
Type ahead search
Faceted navigation and filters
Pagination options
Results “Zoom in” and “zoom out”
Options for browsing from results to details and back
Type ahead search
Faceted navigation and filters
Pagination options
Results “Zoom in” and “zoom out”
Options for browsing from results to details and back
Type ahead search
Faceted navigation and filters
Pagination options
Results “Zoom in” and “zoom out”
Options for browsing from results to details and back
Type ahead search
Faceted navigation and filters
Pagination options
Results “Zoom in” and “zoom out”
Options for browsing from results to details and back
Results presentation: Federated search results presentation
Presentation of different asset types
Information visualization
Result level: Titles, overviews, groups and line items.
Rich/innovative results presentation
Results presentation: Federated search results presentation
Presentation of different asset types
Information visualization
Result level: Titles, overviews, groups and line items.
Rich/innovative results presentation
Results presentation: Federated search results presentation
Presentation of different asset types
Information visualization
Result level: Titles, overviews, groups and line items.
Rich/innovative results presentation
Results presentation: Federated search results presentation
Presentation of different asset types
Information visualization
Result level: Titles, overviews, groups and line items.
Rich/innovative results presentation
Results presentation: Federated search results presentation
Presentation of different asset types
Information visualization
Result level: Titles, overviews, groups and line items.
Rich/innovative results presentation
Results presentation: Federated search results presentation
Presentation of different asset types
Information visualization
Result level: Titles, overviews, groups and line items.
Rich/innovative results presentation
Results presentation: Federated search results presentation
Presentation of different asset types
Information visualization
Result level: Titles, overviews, groups and line items.
Rich/innovative results presentation
Results presentation: Federated search results presentation
Presentation of different asset types
Information visualization
Result level: Titles, overviews, groups and line items.
Rich/innovative results presentation
Results presentation: Federated search results presentation
Presentation of different asset types
Information visualization
Result level: Titles, overviews, groups and line items.
Rich/innovative results presentation
Results presentation: Federated search results presentation
Presentation of different asset types
Information visualization
Result level: Titles, overviews, groups and line items.
Rich/innovative results presentation
Results presentation: Federated search results presentation
Presentation of different asset types
Information visualization
Result level: Titles, overviews, groups and line items.
Rich/innovative results presentation
Results presentation: Federated search results presentation
Presentation of different asset types
Information visualization
Result level: Titles, overviews, groups and line items.
Rich/innovative results presentation
Relevancy, personalization and taking action: Information relationships and nearness
Community tagging, rating, and ranking
Implicit personalization via behavior tracking and pattern analysis
Explicit personalization via profile building and “persistent filters”
Recommended searches
Individual manipulation of results
Saving and sharing results
Generating results feeds
Relevancy, personalization and taking action: Information relationships and nearness
Community tagging, rating, and ranking
Implicit personalization via behavior tracking and pattern analysis
Explicit personalization via profile building and “persistent filters”
Recommended searches
Individual manipulation of results
Saving and sharing results
Generating results feeds
Relevancy, personalization and taking action: Information relationships and nearness
Community tagging, rating, and ranking
Implicit personalization via behavior tracking and pattern analysis
Explicit personalization via profile building and “persistent filters”
Recommended searches
Individual manipulation of results
Saving and sharing results
Generating results feeds
Relevancy, personalization and taking action: Information relationships and nearness
Community tagging, rating, and ranking
Implicit personalization via behavior tracking and pattern analysis
Explicit personalization via profile building and “persistent filters”
Recommended searches
Individual manipulation of results
Saving and sharing results
Generating results feeds
Relevancy, personalization and taking action: Information relationships and nearness
Community tagging, rating, and ranking
Implicit personalization via behavior tracking and pattern analysis
Explicit personalization via profile building and “persistent filters”
Recommended searches
Individual manipulation of results
Saving and sharing results
Generating results feeds
Relevancy, personalization and taking action: Information relationships and nearness
Community tagging, rating, and ranking
Implicit personalization via behavior tracking and pattern analysis
Explicit personalization via profile building and “persistent filters”
Recommended searches
Individual manipulation of results
Saving and sharing results
Generating results feeds
Relevancy, personalization and taking action: Information relationships and nearness
Community tagging, rating, and ranking
Implicit personalization via behavior tracking and pattern analysis
Explicit personalization via profile building and “persistent filters”
Recommended searches
Individual manipulation of results
Saving and sharing results
Generating results feeds
Relevancy, personalization and taking action: Information relationships and nearness
Community tagging, rating, and ranking
Implicit personalization via behavior tracking and pattern analysis
Explicit personalization via profile building and “persistent filters”
Recommended searches
Individual manipulation of results
Saving and sharing results
Generating results feeds
Relevancy, personalization and taking action: Information relationships and nearness
Community tagging, rating, and ranking
Implicit personalization via behavior tracking and pattern analysis
Explicit personalization via profile building and “persistent filters”
Recommended searches
Individual manipulation of results
Saving and sharing results
Generating results feeds
Relevancy, personalization and taking action: Information relationships and nearness
Community tagging, rating, and ranking
Implicit personalization via behavior tracking and pattern analysis
Explicit personalization via profile building and “persistent filters”
Recommended searches
Individual manipulation of results
Saving and sharing results
Generating results feeds