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Building search interfaces with a large number of options

I'm about to start developing a web interface to a search - it indexes a large number of items with a lot of metadata, so there is a need to enable searching in multiple ways over lots of data. There ...
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Syntax conventions for search terms: wildcard, literal, options, etc

I have an application that presents a list of items and multiple filtering criteria. Some of the filtering criteria take a string value for the filter, and the application currently supports basic ...
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Filter options - Preferable to use an 'all' box or a 'clear' link to restore default settings?

I'm currently working on a search engine, filter options are provided to allow users to refine their searches. Example: TYPE [box] Firm [box] Lawyer [box] Transaction [box] Company When the ...
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Combination of text and drag and drop search

I am designing a filter function for a software application (not a web site) which contains multiple input controllers. A text input is used in combination with a drop zone for files (for drag and ...
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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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How to design linked filters? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Best practices for no search results I always get angry when I refine my search applying filters in any website and I get the 'no results' page. Why do they show me an ...
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Which is the correct way to implement faceted search filtering: links vs checkboxes?

Is there a difference between implementing filtering options using links (or radio buttons), ie. you can only check one, versus using checkboxes? For example: Youtube uses links, you can only select ...
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How to indicate AND and OR in a search form

I am designing a search form where the user has to indicate if the field is required or optional, this will affect the way the query is built. For example if the user marks the field as required, in ...
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How to display a faceted-search menu where categories could contain just 1 or over 100 choices?

I've been tasked with the following. Review organization of search facets at left. we have an issue where certain facets have >10 options and can have N options define/design a new UI/UX to handle ...
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Two search bars on the same page or combination?

The main use of my site is video browsing. There is a search bar in the nav to search for videos. My site also has a photo section. I need to add search functionality on the photo section. I'm torn ...
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Is there a name for this instant filter search pattern?

I've been trying to find a jQuery plugin which creates behavior similar to that of Stack Exchange user searches. The user search used on Stack Exchange sites is not an auto complete, but is more akin ...
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Filesystem Treeview must haves [closed]

I'm currently working on a web-based project which will be showing a treeview of folders and files. My question is, what must have UI features should I pack? And specifically, how should I lay out a ...
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Should department filter be located to the left or the right of the search text input in e-commerce sites?

I'm working on a new shopping site and i see a possible minor improvement. We have a typical search form on top left, with dropdown for categories and input field. I think maybe it's better if we ...
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Extensive filtering on search results page

I'm just working on a quite complex interface. There are/will be tons of items in it and there is a massive search feature. Search is filterable just like on Ebay or Amazon etc. Filters are very ...
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Filtering results with checkboxes

A colleague of mine and I have had a discussion about filtering with checkboxes on one of our sites. We use a number of checkboxes to allow the user to refine a search, by selecting their areas of ...
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Searching for items that include/exclude an attribute

I have a list of items. These items have 1 or more colors (black, red, green or any combination of the three). The user wants to filter the item on color. For example, show only the items that: ...
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How to combine Suggestions with Filtering in a searchbox?

I got a textfield/combobox for typing a search string (or selecting a recent searchstring). The search results are presented in a list below the box. I also got a textfield for filtering the list. ...
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Search/Filter for automotive search

I'm creating a search form for an automotive website, and we want to use auto-suggest to recommend filter sets to refine the data. I've never designed search results that also incorporate search ...
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Search filtering (all vs. selected areas)

This is the part of our advanced search screen for searching the documents: It works like this: if the "Search in documents containing any language" is selected and users clicks on a check-box ...
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Search filtering UI in a mobile app?

I'm making a mobile app for searching an extremely large dataset (trademarks) that have each been tagged in one or more of 45 categories. (E.g., "Budweiser" might be tagged in both clothing ...
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Filtering through a large table of data, thoughts?

Example: I have a large amount of data, such as a library of blog posts, or a massive amount of contacts, I am thinking that a data table visually would be the best way to display all this data, it is ...
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Search Vs. Filter- what is the difference

From the view of the user (not from a technical view)- What are the main differences between searching and filtering data, in order to get specific results? i.e.- in both cases the user is looking ...