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Designing Advanced Search
Balasubramanyam Ganapathi
“Investigate how other applications & sites provide
advanced search functionality, and propose some
alternatives with pros & cons for how Vault could offer this
capability. “
“The target persona is a business user who is
familiar with consumer web sites & uses Microsoft
Windows, but is by no means a power user or
technical whiz. “
Literature Review
“Often, advanced search is a clumsy add-on that’s rarely
used, and it lets engineers and designers take the easy way out.
Valuable features that are difficult to integrate into the main
interface can be relocated to the ghetto and forgotten. “
Peter Morville and Jefferey Callender
Search Patterns – Design for Discovery (2009)
“The advanced search page can provide a variety of
fancy options, including Booleans, scopes, and
various parametric searches. It is important to use an
intimidating name like "advanced search" to scare off
novice users from getting into the page and hurting
themselves“ - Jakob Nielsen
Search And You May Find (1997)
0.5%
“The people who do use Advanced Search are your
most fanatical users, the professional librarians …
and investigators“
- Tim Bray, Google
On Search - The Users (2003)
Design Implications
Make your default search cover the use cases for
99% usage
Make your advanced search as comprehensive and
powerful as possible.
Advanced search in other applications
Fixed Query Searches
does not contain
Advanced Facets
Dynamic Query Construction
Proposed mockups
Questions?
Thanks