Questions tagged [search-results]
Search result is the result of a search activity. The search result can be displayed in different ways and with different design.
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Results count per page drop down location: Top or bottom
There is some internal debate about whether or not the view results count per page drop down should be at the top of the data tables or below them. I recently made adjustments to our data tables, and ...
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Does this scenario make sense within truncated search results?
Currently our search results are truncated at 90 characters. We are discussing adding the option for users to "read more" with a drop down to the rest of the summary/search text.
I've certainly seen ...
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One Page Design for Save, Update, Delete, List Functionality
I have a design question: I want to make save, update, delete, show the list of a certain data (for example name). I have done a design that can be in 1 page. But I do not want it to be too ...
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search-suggestion / Best way to show up the look-up option
I am designing a truck details edit form screen. Which consist of truck’s general information tab and a document tab to upload the document related to that truck.
In the truck’s general information ...
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Type search vs Guided search
I'm building a webApp and I'm facing a discussion with my client about the searching function of the app, the main porpouse of the webApp is to find houses to buy/rent.
Currently the search function ...
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Guidelines to design a No result search page
No result page for search are dead ends. Are there any existing guidelines or research results on effective no result search pages ?
Here is what i have so far.
Typography
Use proper typography and ...
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Ideal number of items per row / Page results
The current layout of our grid view is 5 Items and the description text is cramped. I did a mock up of 4 items per row and it gave the description more room to breathe.
Now my question is that if I ...
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search list with `all` option
In my mobile app (android + ios) you can either choose ALL PLAYERS, or search and choose specific player from the search results (e.g LEBRON JAMES).
Were should I put the ALL PLAYERS option?
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How to prioritise site search for two different audiences
I'm designing a site for students and teachers, which is a set of learning materials on a particular topic. There are three types of content:
Content only for students
Content only for teachers
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Good way to condense search results?
In my app, after a user performs a query, the server sends back an array of results. Each item in the result is actually information about a particular organization - their name, their address, their ...
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Show Results Before Searching
We have a page where you can search through roughly 100 products. Since it's not that much products, I want to show all of them when the page load for the first time but a colleague argue that we ...
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Minimum length of characters for an autocomplete search input
I'm in the process of creating an a search input for restaurants with autocomplete. I was wondering if it would be best for me to require a minimum amount of characters before returning suggested ...
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Two Search Boxes or One or Something Else
So I am developing a website which needs a search box in which you enter some activity like bowling, cycling etc. and to next of that there is another text box which has a location like New York City, ...
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Searching for items in breadcrumbs and displaying them in flat list
We've got a highly structured hierarchy, which can be navigated using breadcrumbs. It does contain same keyword in some edge cases.
So imagine that our hierarchy looks like this:
Beer
Beer By Type
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Pattern for search landing vs results
We have a search screen that lets users search on two (and possibly more) elements.
They come to the screen and we say "Please enter aaa or bbb" and the two empty search boxes are at the top of the ...
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"Select all" and search field in a table
I'm looking for a solution that will allow to send specific items by clicking "Send". The selection of these items should be done while allowing:
Adding specific value by search (narrows results on ...
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Advanced Filtering on Mobile device
Here's a scenario I am currently trying to solve for an E-commerce website.
Let's say a user is shopping for clothes on their mobile device. The user performs a search for shirts and arrives at a ...
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Search related, natural language or keyword based
I personally don't know how the end user will interact with my website. Therefore, it's more or less impossible for me to actually decide which search format I should use. I really don't know whether ...
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Truncation design solution for a search result with more than 1000 authors
Three things:
In recent years, we have seen a steep increase in the number of papers with authors in excess of 50, and a particularly notable
spike in reports whose author counts exceed 1,000 and ...
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How to visualize immediate and total search result counts
Background:
I'm designing a search UI for power users and I'd like to visualize the selected criteria and result counts. The list of actual search results are shown below in the UI.
The user can add ...
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UX using a search bar than returns results across 2 models. How should this be presented?
I have a simple "advice" question.
In my Rails App I am using Sunspot to perform searches across 2 models in my application - users and questions. Naturally when you think about this, there are ...
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What's the best way to display hierarchical tabular data (parent/child relationship) while allowing both pagination and search?
I've run into a brick wall while trying to come up with a suitable tabular user interface for showing hierarchical data in a table while at the same time including a search interface and pagination.
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What's the maximum number of individuals registered to one UK postcode?
We were designing a feature for a system, in which a postcode search would return not the addresses within one postcode, but a list of individuals registered at that postcode.
In order for the UX ...
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Searching for words containing punctuation
There's a case where if I'm searching for a phrase containing punctuation e.g
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Can I have the following rules:
If there's content matching the exact phrase file.png then just show that
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How to add tag search to the UI for a video site
I'm building a site which will hold short videos on a variety of topics - similar to TED.com. I'm seeking inspiration for the best way to engage users and encourage them to browse for videos.
I've ...
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Is it odd to display search results for fields that are not visible in a table?
We have a web product that displays "widgets" in a table. Each row has the name of the widget along with other attributes such as color and size. In order to keep a manageable number of columns, we ...
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looking for the search criteria that would end up displaying most relevant search results
I'm new BA and I got my first requirement to analyze.
Issue: There are two search fields in my XYZ application; Item and Item Code. You can use either of these 2 fields to get the list of the items ...
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Why not put Refine/Faceted Search on the right instead?
Context: I’m designing a classic search engine for academics so they can find download paper published by their peers.
Situation: When users are presented with a numbered list of results, sorted by ...
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Displaying complex diagram search results
I am asked to put together a mockup for search results of business diagram. The typical business diagram looks like this:
The entire diagram is in svg, the results must be highlighted to the ...
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Allowing users to filter and expand a default set of search results
I'm trying to figure out the best UI for:
1.) Presenting users with a default set of search results (let's say 'toys')
2.) Allowing the user to filter those search results per standard checkboxes (...
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What is the recommended minimum characters limit for auto-complete/filter?
We would like to provide our tables with generic search field that will filter entries where at least one of the columns contains the input text. We also think of providing auto-completion for this ...
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Representing travel time on a map when more than one destination
I'm looking for a solution for how to represent two different values on a single marker on the map.
Background:
I am building a real estate site where a key feature is showing results based on travel ...
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Should I redirect the user if there's only one search result, or still show the results list?
If a search results in only one item on the search results page, should I save the user’s time by immediately redirecting him/her to the searched item, or let the user see the list before moving on?
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Suggestive search limit
So I'm currently having a debate with people I work with around a suggestive search box.
The debate is around what's the best UX for displaying large amounts of content. As an example:
If a user ...
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Should some search options be removed when you land on the results page?
I am designing a search page and wondering how some advanced search options affect filters. Here are two examples to help set the context:
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On the home page you have the option to show more ...
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Best way to setup search for large amounts of PDFs etc
My first post here and hoping to get some useful insight and feedback. I'm working on a redesign project (UX & IA) for a local gov't client with a large amount of PDF documents. One of the project ...
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Why do different search engines give me rather different results? [closed]
If I type a topic into "Google," I get one list of articles. If I type the same topic into, e.g. Ask.com, I usually get a rather different list. Or at least they are in very different orders. Why is ...
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Best way to show search results for different content types
On a website that has different types of content on the same topic, how should this information be displayed after a user searches. Let's say a site's topic is "trees" and the content types are as ...
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One robust search tool versus multiple, use-case specific search tools
What are people's thoughts on creating a singular search tool, that could potentially answer lots of questions versus spinning off various smaller tools that address very specific use cases?
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How to enhance bilingual - auto suggest search box?
Our users need to submit a form for submitting a request. Form is available in multiple languages. This form has text box ( the most important field, works as a auto suggest search box). We used to ...
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What is better interaction when we have many search criteria and many search results and is continuous flow?
I am working on one requirement where we kind of screen flow (steps to complete). First step is to search the list of claims and select it and proceed to next steps. Similarly we have different steps ...
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Search results - bring data by custom query or all data ? (Performance issues)
We are developing a system which uses a web console. Once the user logs in, he can choose a date from a date slider and click the “Get” button to retrieve relevant data which can be more than 5000 ...
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Single search box for different types of searched criteria
I have a scenario where users can search for a particular hotel and add it to their private list. Up until now the search was performed on the hotel name, but now there is a request to also search ...
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should full name include middle name?
I am developing a search function and we have decided that users should be able to search by first name and surname. However it occurred to me that searching for (as a full name) would then return ...
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When searching for a plural word, should single variants match?
I'm creating a simple search from image tags and corresponding text from a database.
It has come up that a user has words like cathedral and cathedrals and when visitors search for cathedrals they ...
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Should free text search result in a result list or in an "article"?
I'm designing a search control to enable users to search among a variety of food products. Now I'm a bit confused to how I should shape the behavior, if a search always should result in a result list ...
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Search Results: "Is this what you were looking for?"
I'm working on the search results for a large shopping site. Each day it gets thousands of queries and, as expected, often gets misspelled search terms. Each day reps go through the search results and ...
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Is having the number of search results in heading markup accessible
In a recent accessibility report of our application there were some points stating that the number of results should not be in a heading on the page. For example, the markup should be:
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Tweaking search results page
I'm trying to build new UI for user search page, nothing too fancy - simple input, one drop-down and search button.
I'm using bootstrap to speed thing up and after some time I've created something ...
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What to do with the "last" button in pagination?
A large number of lists and search result pages use First and Last links, sometimes styled as << and >>. In most cases, the Last button is also the far right one, which seems to be regarded as ...
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