[IxDA Discuss] searching within browse

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Consider the amalgamation of both.  Ideally, there are not two isolated 
environments.  Osmosis between these systems should be fluid and transparent 
to the user.  Think of "search" as a browse refinement... another dimension 
to filter against.
In the end, the core associated tasks are perusal and targeting -- in which, 
neither search nor browse should be construed as exclusive modalities.  The 
idea that search and browse represent discrete mechanisms for a binary canon 
of use cases is antiquated and, ultimately, will not scale.

My advice, given a limited understanding your specific application, is to 
allow for the constraint of any search query to the active set of results, 
and to retain the user's context otherwise (in as much as that is possible).

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From:  Carlos Celi <carlos at nazcadigital.com>
To:  Valerie Gomez de la Torre <valeriegomez at gmail.com>,discuss at ixda.org
Subject:  Re: [IxDA Discuss] searching within browse
Date:  Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:50:51 -0800 (PST)
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>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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