[IxDA Discuss] searching within browse

[Miguel Gonzalez]

Yes me too, but I am a power user as most of us on this forum.

I guess that the best thing to do is to run an usability test, take a bunch of your real final
users and put then through the interface to find out the answer. You don't even need to build up a
prototype, you could use that same web site.

Another way could be by searching for some publication from some team that already have ran this
usability test.

Maglez.



--- Sebi Tauciuc <stauciuc at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I like it. I wonder if it's because I'm a power user or because it's a good
> model or both.
> 
> Sebi
> 
> On 11/2/06, bobby nath : * <bobbynath at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > ..:
> >
> >
> > Hmm... not quite what I was thinking.
> > Here's an example that comes to mind:
> > Check out http://shopping.comcast.net/search_attrib.php/page_id=87 (which
> > should be home > electronics > audio components > cd changers)
> >
> > - Click "Denon" in the left hand column.  Notice a dashboard labeled
> > "Selected Filters" is instantiated in the left column, and an option to
> > remove the refinement variable of "Denon" is provided.
> > - Now, search for the term "5 disc" using the default dropdown option of
> > "search current results".  Observe that the context has persisted; the
> > only
> > difference is that the search term has been applied as an additional
> > filter
> > over the previous set of results.  It, like "Denon", can now be
> > browsed/searched within, and removed as a constraint... if so desired.
> > - Select "Carousel" under "Disc Mechanism" in the left column.  Your
> > results
> > should reduce to 1 (as the parenthetical binning implied).
> > - Now, delete the search term from the "Selected Filters" block, and you
> > will expand your results by three.
> >
> > This is (part of) the power of multi-dimensional navigation and offering
> > search/browse as synergistic mechanisms for result refinement, rather than
> > isolating them as two disparate systems.
> >
> > 8 :*
> >
> >
> >
> -- 
> Sergiu Sebastian Tauciuc
> http://www.sergiutauciuc.ro/en/
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