A virtual seminar: Leveraging Search & Discovery Patterns For Great Online Experiences
with Peter Morville and Mark Burrell
19thMay '10
About the event
This SUPA meeting we are doing something different and showing one of UIE's most popular virtual seminars to-date. The seminar focuses on one of the most important functions for any web user - Search.
Almost every site has a search function. But, do they all work as well as they could? More importantly, how is your site's search doing? Are users abandoning the site in frustration, because they can't find what they want?
The abundance and variation of search implementations out there present a challenge to designers: how do we leverage the behaviours our users are developing to ensure they find the content they're seeking? By understanding how people interact with search implementations, we can create effective designs that deliver great experiences for both searching and discovering.
In this seminar, Peter Morville, who has recently release his new book Search Pattern, shares his new material and shows us the typical user behaviours that emerge when users face a search box or a page of results. For example, you'll see how many users cleverly reduce the number of results to improve the relevance of each one (a behaviour Peter calls Narrowing). You'll also see how some users will take a result they believe is relevant and authoritative - a "pearl" as it were - and use that result to search for other relevant and authoritative materials.
The seminar also includes information from Mark Burrell (see below) on how to adapt search patterns for your sites or sites that you are working on.
More about the speaker(s)
Peter Morville is probably most famous for being the co-author of the all-time great Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, which he wrote with Lou Rosenfeld. He wrote a second book, Ambient Findability, which is another favourite of UX professionals. Read more from Peter on his blog.
Mark Burrell has the distinguished title as Worldwide Lead for User Experience at Endeca, a leading provider of high-end search products. For this seminar, he'll draw upon the dozens of search implementations he's worked on, across all different industries, which, inevitably, lead to the creation of Endeca UI Design Pattern Library for Search & Discovery - the very library he'll show you in the seminar.
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