Panda vs. Human: Advanced eCommerce SEO & UX
This session will introduce cutting-edge human interfaces from Greg Nudelman’s Designing Search: UX Strategies for eCommerce Success – and then consider the same interface from the view of the panda (Google’s new search engine crawler algorithm).
Search UX Design Articles
Search Engine Summit (SES) * November 14-18, 2011 * Chicago, IL
Nov 19th, 2011 By
Enterprise Search Summit Fall * November 1-3, 2011 * Washington, DC
Nov 1st, 2011 By
Immersive Mobile E-Commerce Search Using Drop-Down Menus
Mar 10th, 2011 By
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.
Faceted Finding with Super-Powered Breadcrumbs
Mar 10th, 2011 By
Introducing Integrated Faceted Breadcrumb (IFB) design that integrates the power of faceted refinement with the intuitive query expansion afforded by browse.
Designing Brand Landing Pages for Mobile Devices
Feb 21st, 2011 By
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.
Design4Mobile * September 20-24, 2010 * Chicago, IL
Sep 22nd, 2010 By
Designing Resourceful Mobile E-Commerce Search
Mobile search presents a compelling story in its own right, with it’s own experience considerations and tremendous opportunities. To help illustrate what creates a resourceful and intuitive mobile search experience, I will present the best material from my upcoming book, Designing Search: UX Strategies for eCommerce Success due out from Wiley in Spring 2011.
Design Patterns for Mobile Faceted Search: Part II
Jun 4th, 2010 By
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.
Design Patterns for Mobile Faceted Search: Part I
Apr 22nd, 2010 By
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.
Designing Mobile Search: Turning Limitations into Opportunities
Mar 8th, 2010 By
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.
Numeric Filters: Issues and Best Practices
Feb 8th, 2010 By
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.
A custom workshop - just for your team. Come With Questions.
Leave With Wireframes.
But it requires a new level of sophistication, discipline and minimalist thinking. With years of experience designing mobile and tablet experiences for top firms like eBay, Wells Fargo, WebEx and IBM comes expertise. Knowing when to follow design patterns. When to break them. And when to invent new approaches that redefine the industry.
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If you are designing for web or mobile, you can't afford to ignore search. Search is more than mere technology. It is an experience. A moment of flow, of meaning. A quiet conversation with your customer. That is why I wrote