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26 Jan 08

Advancing Advanced Search - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

  • use an intimidating name like ‘advanced search’ to scare off novice users from getting into the page and hurting themselves.
    • July 15, 1997.
      maybe too early       - on 2008-01-26
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  • The people who do use Advanced Search are your most fanatical users, the professional librarians, spooks, and private investigators.”
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14 Oct 07

白鸦 » 展现方式成为搜索战争的突围口？

  • 一个页面一下子展现出来太多的东西，用户反倒不知道该如何选择
  • “综合搜索”其实只是把所有类别的搜索结果都找地方摆出来，而“整合搜索”是先把不同类别的搜索结果排好顺序，再按照用户习惯的方式展现出来
11 Sep 07

木的=moond{lab} » Blog Archive » 增强搜索结果页面的可用性

    • ”其他人也搜索类似的关键词：XXX“ － 一个关联搜索用户之间的功能，提供同兴趣用户之间的交流渠道，增强社交网络的发展。
    • 对搜索结果的评论收集和评分排列 － 帮助用户回避不真实的搜索结果
    • 搜索结果数量，鼓励用户使用再搜索功能缩小搜索范围 － ryana补充
    • 对特定关键字的更新信息提醒 － ryana补充， 这个建议也很有意义，对于一些特定网站， 如果可以通过订阅类似RSS的功能对感兴趣的产品或关键信息得到更新提醒，对用户会是一个很方便的功能

木的=moond{lab} » Blog Archive » 你的网站搜索功能可用性如何

    • 你的测试用户是通过点击页面查找内容？还是通过网站的内容搜索功能查找？
    • 他们通常使用什么样的关键字搜索？
    • 搜索功能模块在页面里是否醒目（或说放置在一个容易看到的位置）？位置是否始终保持一致？
    • 搜索框的文字长度是否能基本满足普遍的搜索需求？
    • 搜索结果是否是测试用户想要查找的内容或答案？
    • 正确的搜索结果是否列在了结果页面的第一页？
    • 搜索功能是否具备了纠正用户输入错误拼写的提示？
    • 对于无法找到的内容，系统是否提供了类似的推荐或提示，帮助测试用户尝试不同的方法？
31 Mar 07

Search: Visible and Simple (Alertbox)

    • On home pages, search should be a type-in field and not a link.
    • The search input field should be wide enough to contain the typical query; if the box is too small, the query will scroll and diminish usability.

Search Usability (Alertbox July 1997)

    • a search button on every page (Update: search should be shown as a box, not a link, according to my newer studies on search usability.)
    • global search (searching all of the site) is better than scoped search
    • boolean queries should be relegated to a secondary "advanced search" page

Search User Interface and User Experience - SearchTools Report

    • Put a simple, reasonably long search field on every page of the site.



    • Use simple words to explain the process: remove all jargon and technical
      terms, and make sure that any icons have labels.



    • Avoid inventing a new interface, which will confuse users: take the best
      of the formats of the large public search engines



    • Make the search forms and results pages fit into the overall design of
      the web site: they should use the same colors, fonts and so on.



    • Include site names and navigation links into results pages, so users can
      see the context and structure of the site.



    • Set up a special page to be displayed when the search does not find any
      matches in the index (see No-Matches Page
      Guidelines      )



    • Avoid surprises: clarify all automated search features, such as stemming,
      phonetic matching, thesaurus lookups and stopwords (see Glossary).
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