Search Patterns: Design for Discovery

O'Reilly Media | ISBN: 0596802277 | 2010-02-01 | PDF | 192 pages | 15 Mb

Using colorful illustrations and examples, the authors bring modern information retrieval to life, covering such diverse topics as relevance ranking, faceted navigation, multi-touch, and augmented reality. Search Patterns challenges us to invent the future of discovery while serving as a practical guide to help us make search better today: • Discover a pattern language for search that embraces user psychology and behavior, information architecture, interaction design, and emerging technology • Increase sales for e-commerce and efficiency in the enterprise • Help mobile users to achieve goals, complete tasks, and find what they need • Learn how futures methods and user experience deliverables can be employed to drive innovation in the design of search interfaces and applications • Search Patterns draws upon insight and experience to help you build effective search applications. Web practitioners, mobile designers, students, search entrepreneurs, and anyone fascinated by the future will find this book intriguing and invaluable. Peter Morville is president of Semantic Studios, an information architecture, user experience, and findability consultancy. Peter is best known as a founding father of information architecture, having co-authored the field's bestselling book, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web.

 

 

 

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