Designing Search – tutorial at Search Solutions 2016

Last month I announced the line-up for Search Solutions 2016, to be held at BCS London on November 30. This year we’re also offering a Tutorial Programme, which will run the day before. The programme consists of four half day-tutorials:

• 09:30-13:00 Designing Search (Dr. Tony Russell-Rose, UXLabs)
• 09:30-13:00 Query Log Mining for Inferring User Tasks and Needs , (Emine Yilmaz and Rishabh Mehrotra, UCL)
• 14:00-17:30 Text Analysis with GATE (Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield)
• 14:00-17:30 Enterprise search evaluation – good practice in action, (Paul Clough, University of Sheffield and Martin White, Intranet Focus Ltd)

I’ve appended further details of my tutorial below. Full details of pricing and registration are available on the Search Solutions website. Note that the closing date for bookings is Friday 25th November 2016. Hope to see you there!

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Designing Search – tutorial at Search Solutions 2015

Last month I announced the line-up for Search Solutions 2015, to be held at BCS London on Thurs November 26. This year we’re also offering a Tutorial Programme, which will run the day before (November 25). The programme consists of four half day-tutorials:

• 09:30-13:00 Designing Search (Dr. Tony Russell-Rose, UXLabs)
• 09:30-13:00 Crowdsourcing for Data Processing and Search (Gianluca Demartini, University of Sheffield)
• 14:00-17:30 Text Analysis with GATE (Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield)
• 14:00-17:30 Evaluating search (Paul Clough, University of Sheffield)

I’ve appended further details of my tutorial below. Full details of pricing and registration are available on the Search Solutions website. Note that the closing date for bookings is 23:59 on Wednesday 11th November 2015 (i.e. tomorrow). Hope to see you there!

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Designing Search Usability (tutorial at Search Solutions 2014)

Last month I announced the line-up for Search Solutions 2014, to be held at BCS London on Thurs November 27. This year we’re also offering a Tutorial Programme, which will run the day before (November 26). The programme consists of four half day-tutorials:

• 09:30-13:00 Designing Search Usability (Dr. Tony Russell-Rose, UXLabs)
• 09:30-13:00 Pattern Search and Information Retrieval (Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster)
• 14:00-17:30 Text Analysis with GATE (Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield)
• 14:00-17:30 Metadata Management in SharePoint (Marc Stephenson, Metataxis)

I’ve appended further details of my tutorial below. Full details of pricing and registration are available on the Search Solutions website. Note that the closing date for bookings is 23:59 on Wednesday 12th November 2014 (i.e. tomorrow!) Hope to see you there 🙂

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Designing Search Usability (tutorial at Search Solutions 2013)

Last month I announced the line-up for Search Solutions 2013, to be held at BCS London on Weds November 27. This year we’re also offering a Tutorial Programme, which will run the day before (November 26). The programme consists of six half day-tutorials:

• 09:30-13:00 Designing Search Usability, (Dr. Tony Russell-Rose, UXLabs)
• 09:30-13:00 Patent searching: focus on Asian patent information frameworks, (Jane List, Extract Information Limited)
• 09:30-13:00 Multimedia Information Retrieval frameworks, (Prof. Stefan Rüger, Open University)
• 14:00-17:30 Evaluating Search: designing effective user-centred evaluation frameworks, (Dr Sharon McDonald, University of Sunderland)
• 14:00-17:30 Information resources for the search community, (Martin White, Intranet Focus Ltd)
• 14:00-17:30 City Search: An evolution of search to incorporate city data, (Veli Bicer, IBM Research Ireland)

I’ve appended further details of my tutorial below. Full details of pricing and registration will be available on the Search Solutions website shortly. Hope to see you there!

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Tabs, facets & views: getting the interaction right

As the dominant interaction paradigm used throughout the world of eCommerce, faceted search provides a framework that supports the exploration and selection among thousands – if not millions – of diverse items. But sometimes faceted search needs to be combined with other types of UI control to provide alternative ways to view and organise content. In these cases, the interplay between the various components can be deceptively complex, and small details can make a significant difference to the overall user experience. In this post, we consider some of the issues and examine a number of design solutions.

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New year, New book

I’m guessing that by now most people may have seen this, but just in case – and for the record – here is the official announcement of the publication of Designing the Search Experience: the Information Architecture of Discovery. It’s the product of almost two years effort by Tyler and me, so we’re both relieved and elated to finally see it in print.

I’ve appended a brief summary below. If you’d like to see more – including a free sample chapter – check out the book website. If you’re interested in reviewing it, drop me a line.

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The Information Architecture of Discovery

Remember the Yahoo! Directory? It was a hand-built taxonomy that allowed users to browse and discover Internet resources. By categorizing sites by topic and location, it became the definitive map of the World Wide Web. But at the turn of the millennium, Yahoo! transformed itself from a directory into a search engine. The task of organising so many disparate items into a single coherent structure had simply become too overwhelming.

A decade later, this story is all too familiar. Online stores sell hundreds of thousands of items, social networks host millions of users, and Flickr hosts billions of photos. Navigation is no longer the future: search is the key to sense-making in the digital universe.

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