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Search UX Design Articles

Extensive collection of our search UX design articles: key design concepts, user experience strategies, tips and tricks for search and ecommerce user experiences.

Extensive collection of our search UX design articles: key design concepts, user experience strategies, tips and tricks for search and ecommerce user experiences.

Android, Siri and Tangible Future of Voice Search UX

Jun 12th, 2012 //  by Greg Nudelman

Today, Apple announced a bunch of enhancements to Siri and voice search. How does Siri UX compare with Android 4.0? What’s just around the corner for Voice Search? Don’t tell your phone or tablet anything else until you’ve read the article.

Category: Artificial Intelligence, Mobile, RWD, and Tablet UX Design, Search UX Design ArticlesTag: android, Mobile and Tablet UX Design Articles, Search UX Design Articles, siri, tablet, UX, UX Design, voice

Is Your UI Causing Zero Search Results Pages?

Aug 17th, 2011 //  by contributor

“Designing from Zero” – how to analyze UI challenges that are often the hidden cause of zero-results pages as a catalyst for creating powerful, original design solutions that create customer delight and business revenue.

Category: 56 Articles on Digital Strategy, Mobile and Search, Design Strategy, Featured UX Design Articles, Search UX Design ArticlesTag: best practices, Design Strategy, Search UX Design Articles, UX, UXMagazine

Mobile Auto-Suggest on Steroids: Tap-Ahead Design Pattern

May 27th, 2011 //  by Greg Nudelman

In contrast to desktop Web search, auto-suggest on mobile devices is subject to two additional limitations: typing avoidance and slower bandwidth. The new patent-pending design pattern, Tap-Ahead, uses continuous refinement to create an intuitive, authentically mobile auto-suggest solution. This helps dramatically reduce the amount of typing needed to enter queries, and utilizes slower mobile bandwidth in the most efficient manner. Using this novel design pattern, your customers can quickly access thousands of popular search term combinations by typing just a few initial characters.

Category: 56 Articles on Digital Strategy, Mobile and Search, Mobile, RWD, and Tablet UX Design, Search UX Design ArticlesTag: Mobile and Tablet UX Design Articles, Patent, Smashing Magazine, UX Design

Immersive Mobile E-Commerce Search Using Drop-Down Menus

Immersive Mobile E-Commerce Search Using Drop-Down Menus

Mar 10th, 2011 //  by Greg Nudelman

Specialized drop-down menu are one of the ways of creating immersive experience in mobile e-commerce search UIs. A novel design pattern, status bar drop-down menu, allows 100% of the screen real estate to be dedicated to search results, while also providing convenient and intuitive access to navigation and filter functions.

Category: 56 Articles on Digital Strategy, Mobile and Search, Mobile, RWD, and Tablet UX Design, Search UX Design ArticlesTag: Mobile and Tablet UX Design Articles, Search UX Design Articles, UX Design, UXMagazine

Faceted Finding with Super-Powered Breadcrumbs

Mar 10th, 2011 //  by Greg Nudelman

Introducing Integrated Faceted Breadcrumb (IFB) design that integrates the power of faceted refinement with the intuitive query expansion afforded by browse.

Category: 56 Articles on Digital Strategy, Mobile and Search, Search UX Design ArticlesTag: BoxesandArrows, Search UX Design Articles, UX Design, UX Research

Designing Brand Landing Pages for Mobile Devices

Feb 21st, 2011 //  by Greg Nudelman

People love to search by brand names. On the small screens of mobile devices, well-designed landing pages can provide a much better experience than keyword search results. This makes brand landing pages today’s biggest sleeper opportunity for mobile and tablet ecommerce. But you have to learn to be completely ruthless with your features and content. Here’s how.

Category: 56 Articles on Digital Strategy, Mobile and Search, Featured UX Design Articles, Mobile, RWD, and Tablet UX Design, Search UX Design ArticlesTag: brands, iPhone, landing pages, Mobile and Tablet UX Design Articles, Search UX Design Articles, UX Design

Design Patterns for Mobile Faceted Search: Part II

Jun 4th, 2010 //  by Greg Nudelman

In Part I of Design Patterns for Mobile Faceted Search, I looked at Four Corners, Modal Overlay, Watermark, and Full-Page Refinement Options design patterns, which maximize the mobile screen real estate. This column covers strategies for making people aware of the filtering options and methods of improving transitions between the various states of a search user interface.

Category: 56 Articles on Digital Strategy, Mobile and Search, Featured UX Design Articles, Mobile, RWD, and Tablet UX Design, Search UX Design ArticlesTag: faceted search, iPhone, Mobile and Tablet UX Design Articles, Search UX Design Articles, tablet, UX Design, UXmatters

Design Patterns for Mobile Faceted Search: Part I

Apr 22nd, 2010 //  by Greg Nudelman

In my previous Search Matters column, Designing Mobile Search: Turning Limitations into Opportunity, I discussed how mobile search user experiences differ from those on the Web. In this and my next column, I’ll look specifically at the challenges and opportunities of mobile faceted search. This column covers design patterns for maximizing the real estate available for search results, while the next will cover strategies for making people aware of filtering options.

Category: 56 Articles on Digital Strategy, Mobile and Search, Featured UX Design Articles, Mobile, RWD, and Tablet UX Design, Search UX Design ArticlesTag: Mobile and Tablet UX Design Articles, Search UX Design Articles, UX Design, UXmatters

Designing Mobile Search: Turning Limitations into Opportunities

Mar 8th, 2010 //  by Greg Nudelman

Thinking of porting your Web finding experience to iPhone, Android, or Windows Mobile? Just forget about the fact that these devices are basically full-featured computers with tiny screens. Designing a great mobile search experience requires thinking differently: In terms of turning limitations into opportunities.

Category: 56 Articles on Digital Strategy, Mobile and Search, Featured UX Design Articles, Mobile, RWD, and Tablet UX Design, Search UX Design ArticlesTag: Mobile and Tablet UX Design Articles, Search UX Design Articles, UX Design, UXmatters

Numeric Filters: Issues and Best Practices

Feb 8th, 2010 //  by Greg Nudelman

Filters with numeric values remain among the most confusing in faceted search, because many sites have not been able to design usable numeric filters that people can use in an intuitive manner. In this column I cover how to show discrete numeric values, avoid overly constrained filter states, and display key inventory information, and introduce a novel pattern of histogram sliders.

Category: 56 Articles on Digital Strategy, Mobile and Search, Search UX Design ArticlesTag: Search UX Design Articles, UX Design, UXmatters

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