Series Introduction
Over the past several years, we’ve helped clients design, implement and maintain unique search implementations. A natural side effect of our search implementation work has been exposure to hundreds, if not thousands, of different approaches to implementing various forms of search functionality. The organizations we’ve worked with usually have a pretty good understanding of how they want their search system to look and work. On the other hand, they have often not been exposed to possible search user interface search design techniques that could help them greatly improve their search. To help enterprise search customers understand different search user interface approaches, we’ve decided to start a series of articles showcasing well thought out search user interface component implementations. In each one of these articles we’ll showcase 5 different public search implementations, focusing on one search UI component. We’ll outline what we like about the UI approach, and how it helps improve the search experience. Search UI implementations will be highlighted from organizations varying in size and intended audience, and will in no way be exhaustive. These examples represent just a few of the many great implementations of a specific search UI component out there. (Note: This series is not intended to be a a showcase for Norconex accomplishments – we are intentionally not using search examples taken from sites or applications we’ve worked on. Please refer to our portfolio for implementations performed by Norconex.) Read More…
