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Visualizing Facets

by Mark Burrell

Every UX designer working on faceted search and discovery applications faces a key challenge.  How to present facets that instantly tell users:

What’s available within the collection or information space?
Which actions will help users meet their goals?

To meet this challenge, faceted user interfaces need to summarize the information space in a readily comprehensible way and [...]

Posted on August 4, 2010 at 3:52 pm · Permalink · 3 Comments
In: IA, Search/BI convergence, UX, miscellaneous :)

Introducing the Endeca User Interface Design Pattern Library

by Mark Burrell

Our UX team at Endeca gets a steady stream of questions about how to design effective search and discovery experiences. Just some of our FAQs:

“What’s the best way to handle faceted bread crumbs?”
“How should we present faceted navigation?”
“How should we present results [...]

Posted on July 22, 2010 at 8:33 am · Permalink · 3 Comments
In: IA, UX