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Best way to separate navigation and search bar
I am in the process of improving an existing eCommerce site design. The client has asked that we highlight the best selling categories.
Currently all the categories are under the heading Categories ...
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Where should the user end up when clicking “Previous” or “Next” on a search result?
I´m having a discussion regarding how our site filter should work.
The requirements has been the following:
User enters the site and makes a search for eg. "jackets"
Let´s say that we get 10 ...
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Can I safely remove search functionality?
One of our clients has a content-rich website with about 300 pages of content in total. We did our utmost best to provide a very clear main navigation, but also provide a search function in the ...
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2answers
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To search or not to search?
Having an internal search on a web site takes a lot of effort if you should do it “the right way”. You have to handle case sensitivity, visible results query, misspellings, result matches and ...
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Unifying Search and Browse
I am working on a part of a website right now. Let's just call it a Map for now. Every user has a map, which displays his or her interests as images in a grid. Quite obviously, the user can add or ...
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Should pagination be capped in web app search results?
Search results can be a funky thing to design sometimes when it comes to the value of results for a user. IN this Web App I am helping build, the global search bar, when searched, can lists results ...
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3answers
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Starting Instant Search as you type
This is something I've implemented in a Game Library application, the ability to type a letter or a number and have the search box go instantly into focus and search through your library as you type. ...
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1answer
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Name for specific search form type for automobile sites
I'm doing a research on web search usability and interface design for search. I already have a website to exemplify, which is a sort of search engine for cars.
The search form is important in the ...
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3answers
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Task-based navigation: Find a document vs Search for a document
Our web application has a task-based secondary nav bar which, for the "Documents" primary nav item, offers...
Documents
Find a document | Add a document
The "Find a document" item links to a page ...
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Back to search results
When a page has been reached from a search, rather than having a fixed location, is there any benefit to presenting a button to take the user back to the specific search they were in (and their ...
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Is search a necessary navigation element?
I often have arguments about navigation at work with programmers who think search is a required part of any navigation. I think this is because programmers are advanced computer users who use search a ...
