BIBLIOTHEKE

Jakob Nielsen writes:

Summary:
Users now have precise expectations for the behavior of search. Designs that invoke this mental model but work differently are confusing.

Search is such a prominent part of the Web user experience that users have developed a firm mental model for how it’s supposed to work. Users expect search to have three components:

• A box where they can type words
• A button labeled “search” that they click to run the search
• A list of top results that’s linear, prioritized, and appears on a new page — the search engine results page (SERP)

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via Lorcan Dempsey

Some rules I like: when going to do search, do it according to convention (including ranking). When doing more, don’t try to use a search interface.

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