[IxDA Discuss] searching within browse

[Carlos Celi]

Looks like the interface maybe getting pretty complicated when you're able to go from search to browse, and browse to search. What we do is force users to search and provide browsing(or as we call it Refinement) capabilities within the search results in a browseable manner. However, if you absolutely had to allow the ability for the user to jump into searching while browsing, I would only do it by way of a link (i.e. Search within this category) and instantly switch to the search interface titled "Searching within ABC category". Basically it should be very visually apparent to the user when he's gone from browsing to searching and back. make sense?

   
  
Valerie Gomez de la Torre <valeriegomez at gmail.com> wrote:
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Hello all,
I have a question about how to allow to display search results within
a browse categories page.

For example, an application offers both Search and Browse
capabilities. Both designed with pretty standard UI (eg. google search
and dmoz.org browse)

The Browse lists all parent categories and their children.Users can
drill down thru the category trees to view results.

Let's say a user clicks through to a secondary level category and
decides to search within that category.

At this point, would we show these results as being under Search or
under Browse?

Thank you,
Valerie
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