Post on 07-Jan-2017
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Search UI and Lucidworks View @JoshEllinger
Senior UX Engineer, Lucidworks
• Lead engineer Lucidworks View
• Lead engineer on Query Workbench new in Lucidworks Fusion 3.0
• Interests: UI, UX, Javascript, Search, Simply solving complex problems, Hiking, and the great outdoors.
@JoshEllinger Senior UX Engineer, Lucidworks
Our Use Cases
Secure, personalized, relevant, search applications across enterprise data—
wherever it lives
Enterprise Search
Increased conversions, better recommendations, more relevant
results for ecommerce and customer support
Consumer Search
Fusion Architecture
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Admin UI
Lucidworks View
SECURITY BUILT-IN
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Apache Zookeeper
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Leader Election
Load Balancing
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Shared Config Management
Worker Worker
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Manager
Core Services
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NLP
Recommenders / Signals
Blob Storage
Pipelines
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Query Workbench new in Fusion 3.0
ChrisTotal banana hipster
Wants: finding the best $4 banana bread toast
Often doesn’t know the exact brands he's
searching for
Frequently Searches from the road
How can we apply what we know about Chris to a search UI?
Ingredients of search
Ingredients of a Search UI
Recall
RelevancePrecision
User Engagement type
Active Passive
What is the current state of search UI?
Highlighting
• Purpose:
• Helps users find relevant info at a glance in their terms
• Usage type:
Relevance
Passive
Faceting
• Purpose:
• Filtering (helps users drown out signal to noise ratio)
• Usage type:
• Refinement only shows the user relevant results within a faceted category.
Relevance
Active
Auto suggest
• Purpose: Recall
Active Passive
Lets users find things they didn’t know they were looking for
Shortcut allows users to jump to the results they were looking for sooner
• Usage types:
Building UI Boiler plate• Building the query
• Results display, including edge cases.
• Highlighting
• Auto suggest
• Faceting
• Navigation
That is a basic search UI
What is Lucidworks View?
Lucidworks view, is a tool that lets you quickly get to the important part of
search, serving the needs of your users
Lucidworks View• Built to leverage the best parts of Fusion • Easy to install • Easy to get started with the basics • Easy to customize • Completely open source
For simple use cases, it just works with no customizations
View is responsive and modern, and built to be easily extended
Let View handle the boilerplate
Highlighting Faceting Auto suggestRelevance
Passive
Relevance
Active
Recall
Active
Passive
Instant Templates
• Purpose:
• Gives users the most important information they might want to see for that format type in seconds.
• Usage type:
• Comes with 6 provided, or copy and create your own. You choose the data you want to display where.
Relevance
Passive
Login/Authentication
• Purpose:
• Shows the right information to the right user
• Usage type:
• Optionally requires users to login. Takes care of the necessary boiler plate, which makes login and authentication a breeze.
Passive
Precision
Customizable look and feel
• Purpose:
Active Passive
Lets users know that what they find is in context to your brand
The customization allows you to control, features which users can actively interact with. You identify and turn on features which will help your users.
• Usage types:
Relevance
Automatic Signals
• Purpose:
Passive
When a user clicks something in the UI, we automatically collect relevant information, which with fusion can be used to effect results for the next user.
• Usage types:
Precision Recall
Responsive Design
Responsive Design
Today Lucidworks View gives you a modern customizable UI
Highlighting, Faceting, Instant templates, custom look and feel
Recall Auto suggest, custom logo
Automatic signals, Login/Authentication
Relevance
Precision
Advanced customization
Auto suggest, Automatic Signals, Field Facets, Highlighting, Multi browser support,
Range Facets, Landing Pages, Grouped Results, Sorting, Simple Configuration, Changeable Colors,
Instant Templates (Jira, Slack, Twitter, Web, File), Customizable Logo, Login/Authentication,
Https Support, Multi-Select Faceting, Responsive Design,
Editable Html/Js/Css
Demo
Runs on
Viewed onOSX Linux Windows
Chrome Safari Firefox Edge IE
Lets catch up with Chris.
After finding his perfect $4 artesian banana bread toast in seconds.
Chris was a happy camper.
Live site: City of Sacramento Agenda search
http://agendasearch.saccounty.net/
Questions?
Lucidworks View
http://lucidworks.com/products/view
Your users, the right information, the right decision, in minutes not months
Free to download Contributions welcome!
Search UI and Lucidworks View @JoshEllinger
Senior UX Engineer, Lucidworks
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