Posts Tagged ‘Information seeking’
Designing search with a spreadsheet template
Posted in Search, User experience, tagged Faceted search, Information seeking, interaction design on March 13, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Designing search: managing the information journey
Posted in Search, User experience, tagged Endeca, Faceted search, Information seeking, interaction design on February 20, 2018| Leave a Comment »
At this point you may be thinking: ‘But what navigational context is there, apart from keywords?’ Of course, for many simple (aka web) search experiences that’s all there is: a handful of keywords in the opening game that are then echoed in the middle game. But many professional search applications (such as those used by lawyers, scientists, information professionals, etc.) make a virtue of offering a relatively complex opening game in which the user is invited to articulate the full extent of their information need in the form of a complex, pre-coordinated query. In these cases, the full detail of that navigational context needs to be propagated to the middle game in a manner that makes its presence transparent and its effects easily editable.
Designing search: models and metaphors
Posted in Information architecture, Search, User experience, tagged Design Patterns, Faceted search, HCIR, Information Retrieval, Information seeking, interaction design on January 30, 2018| 1 Comment »
It’s often said that search is a conversation: a dialog between two participants that can be every bit as rich as human conversation. On one side is the user, with an information need articulated in the form of a query, and on the other side is the system, with its response in the form of a set of search results. Like human conversation, the outcome relies on a shared understanding of intent and context. Together, these elements form a crucial part of the search experience, guiding and shaping the dialog in productive directions.
But the conversational metaphor can only take us so far. There are levels of nuance to the linguistic interaction between human beings that go beyond simple bidirectional exchanges, and likewise, there are patterns and sequences of human information seeking behavior that transcend the conversational metaphor. At this level, we need to take a more holistic approach, and view search from the perspective of stages in an information journey. In this post, we consider one such model of the information journey that is valuable for both its simplicity and utility.
Designing faceted search (training course in London)
Posted in Information architecture, Search, User experience, tagged Design Patterns, Enterprise search, Faceted search, HCIR, human factors, Information Retrieval, Information seeking, interaction design, Site Search, user-centred design, web search on April 18, 2017| Leave a Comment »
In case you missed it last time (since it filled up pretty quickly), there’s another chance to catch my full-day designing search tutorial in London on May 10. I’ll be presenting a full day course called Search Usability: Filters and Facets, which focuses on faceted search and provides deeper coverage of the key topics along with a variety of new practicals and group exercises.
For further details and registration, see the UKeIG website. In the meantime, I’ve appended further details below.
Hope to see you there!
Search Usability: Filters & Facets
Posted in Information architecture, Search, User experience, tagged Design Patterns, Enterprise search, Faceted search, HCIR, human factors, Information Retrieval, Information seeking, interaction design, Site Search, user-centred design, web search on September 28, 2016| Leave a Comment »
In case you missed it last time (since it filled up pretty quickly), there’s another chance to catch my full-day designing search tutorial in London on October 12. I’ll be presenting a full day course called Search Usability: Filters and Facets, which focuses on faceted search and provides deeper coverage of the key topics along with a variety of new practicals and group exercises.
For further details and registration, see the UKeIG website. In the meantime, I’ve appended further details below.
Hope to see you there!
Supporting Discovery of Archival Collections: Challenges and Opportunities
Posted in Events, Information architecture, Search, User experience, tagged Design Patterns, Information Discovery, Information seeking, search modes, wellcome trust on July 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Last week I had the pleasure of presenting the keynote talk at the Supporting Discovery of Archival Collections: Challenges and Opportunities workshop, held at Wellcome Trust in London. The day was a thoroughly enjoyable mix of presentations and discussions and I learned a great deal. Many thanks to Paul Clough and his fellow organizers Paula Goodale (Sheffield University), Chris Hilton (Wellcome Trust), Sarah Higgins (Aberystwyth University) and Pauline Rafferty (Aberystwyth University). There are plans to produce a paper summarising the workshop findings which I very much look forward to seeing. In the meantime, the slides from my own talk are appended below, titled “Designing the Search Experience: The Language of Discovery”.
Designing Search: training course in London, May 25
Posted in Information architecture, Search, User experience, tagged Design Patterns, Enterprise search, Faceted search, HCIR, human factors, Information Retrieval, Information seeking, interaction design, Site Search, user-centred design, web search on April 25, 2016| Leave a Comment »
In case you missed it last time (since it filled up pretty quickly), there’s another chance to catch my full-day designing search tutorial in London on May 25. I’ll be presenting a full day course called Search Usability: Filters and Facets, which focuses on faceted search and provides deeper coverage of the key topics along with a variety of new practicals and group exercises.
It’s also very competitively priced from just £180 per person – contrast that with a rate of ~£659 a day for this comparable offering!
For further details and registration, see the UKeIG website. In the meantime, I’ve appended further details below.
Hope to see you there!