Morville Peter, Callender Jeffery. Search Patterns

Design for Discovery. — O’Reilly Media, 2010. — 181 p. — ISBN: 978-0-596-80227-1.Search is among the most disruptive innovations of our time. It influences what we buy and where we go. It shapes how we learn and what we believe. In this provocative and inspiring book, you'll explore design patterns that apply across the categories of web, ecommerce, enterprise, desktop, mobile, social, and real-time search and discovery. Filled with colorful illustrations and examples, Search Patterns brings modern information retrieval to life, covering such diverse topics as relevance, faceted navigation, multi-touch, personalization, visualization, multi-sensory search, and augmented reality.By drawing on their own experience-as well as best practices and evidence-based research-the authors not only offer a practical guide to help you build effective search applications, they also challenge you to imagine the future of discovery. You'll find Search Patterns intriguing and invaluable, whether you're a web practitioner, mobile designer, search entrepreneur, or just interested in the topic.Discover a pattern language for search that embraces user psychology and behavior, information architecture, interaction design, and emerging technologyBoost enterprise efficiency and e-commerce salesEnable mobile users to achieve goals, complete tasks, and find what they needDrive design innovation for search interfaces and applicationsPattern Recognition
Understanding Search
The Box
The Goal
The Engine
The Discovery of Color
Elephant in the Room
A Mapmaker’s Manifesto
Apophenia Redux
The Anatomy of Search
Users
Interface
EngineCreators
Context
Portal
Search
Objects
All Together Now
Behavior
Patterns of Behavior
Elements of Interaction
Principles of Design
Incremental Construction
Progressive Disclosure
Immediate Response
Alternate Views
Predictability
Recognition Over Recall
Minimal Disruption
Direct Manipulation
Context of Use
Design Patterns
Autocomplete
Best First
Federated Search
Faceted Navigation
Advanced Search
Personalization
Pagination
Structured Results
Actionable Results
Unified Discovery
The End of the Beginning
Engines of Discovery
Category
Topic
FormatAudiencePlatform
Mode
Tangible Futures
Methods and Deliverables
Search Scenarios
Sensorium
Semantic Singularity
Searchvalence
Flock
Experience Discovery
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