Designing the Search Experience
The Information Architecture of Discovery
By- Tony Russell-Rose, Founder and Director of UXLabs, United Kingdom
- Tyler Tate, Co-Founder and Designer, TwigKit, United Kingdom
Search is not just a box and ten blue links. Search is a journey: an exploration where what we encounter along the way changes what we seek. But in order to guide people along this journey, designers must understand both the art and science of search.In Designing the Search Experience, authors Tony Russell-Rose and Tyler Tate weave together the theories of information seeking with the practice of user interface design.
Audience
Information architects, user experience designers, search engineers, project developers and managers, researchers and students in information retrieval, human-information interaction, and HCI
Paperback, 320 Pages
Published: December 2012
Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 978-0-12-396981-1
Reviews
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"Tony Russell-Rose and Tyler Tate are industry veterans in when it comes to search user experience. They offer a great overview of the dimensions of information-seeking behavior: users, goals, context, and search modes. More importantly, they explain how you can apply these dimensions in designing a compelling search experience for your users." -Daniel Tunkelang, Principal Data Scientist at LinkedIn"Search is among the most disruptive innovations of our time, and in myriad contexts from e-commerce and enterprise to mobile and social, it remains a massive user experience headache. If you dare to tackle this wicked problem, be sure to bring along Designing the Search Experienceas your faithful guide." -Peter Morville, author ofSearch Patterns: Design for Discovery
Contents
PART 1 A Framework for Search and Discovery
Chapter 1 The User
Chapter 2 Information Seeking
Chapter 3 ContextChapter 4 Modes of Search and Discovery
PART 2 Design SolutionsChapter 5 Formulating the Query
Chapter 6 Displaying and Manipulating ResultsChapter 7 Faceted Search
Chapter 8 Mobile SearchChapter 9 Social Search
Part 3 Designing the FutureChapter 10 Cross-Channel Information Interaction
