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What's best UX practice for a OR/AND search box?
I think the learning curve comment you received was more because the switch along with either "All" or "Any" was confusing. When the user is viewing the switch with "All" there is no context as to ...
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Relevancy search across multiple item types related to each other
'Relevance' of search results is based on its score – the higher the score, the higher it is displayed in the results. How you determine the score is up to you? Suggesting a few possible ways here:
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Search suggestions matching, what is the best way to bold matches?
I think that the quoted article does not mean that in one result or sugestion set there should be different highlighting within the same set.
In your case the search is a "like" search (search string ...
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What is the Best Predictive Search Results Bolding Pattern?
I don't necessarily agree with the Google/Bing answer.
Search is a tool, not a use case. Expectations of tools and patterns are wideley different depending on the use case.
Google/Bing search is a use ...
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What is the Best Predictive Search Results Bolding Pattern?
Since most people come to your website with experience of ubiquitous design patterns, you can build on what they are used to.
Jacob's Law is a useful usability heuristic:
Users spend most of their ...
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What are the implications of adding recently visited items to search?
It's all about context. In your example from Confluence (a wiki-like tool) the chance that you may want to go back to a previous article is fairly high (and there is no real privacy issue) thus it ...
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Change search icon to clear input as user types?
It is interesting that the StackExchange search bar at the top doesn't implement a clear input text feature.
There are many reasons why you might want to do this, although usually it seems to make ...
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Filtering/Searching of Search Result Sets
It is a classic information science/search & retrieval debate. Freestyle (partial-match) vs. Boolean. To directly answer your question, this paper references LEXIS/NEXIS's Freestyle as an example ...
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Natural-language query guide
There are various approaches to this.
1) Consider different input methods and usage scenarios. Perhaps a few common options might cover the vast majority of scenarios? Perhaps many of your users will ...
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What's best UX practice for a OR/AND search box?
If you are already committed to having a special syntax for typing in the search box, then why bother with the buttons at all?
You could just make the AND and OR functionality part of the syntax for ...
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Is a categorised suggestion box a good idea?
This implementation of "When you start typing, the suggestion box opens and it suggests you some results on the right, and some popular categories on the left." is really a good one.
I would give a ...
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search suggestions and other list filter fields
It depends what are you going to base your search suggestions on.
Search suggestions based on earlier (successful) queries - there shouldn't be relation to checkboxes, but if there isn't any record ...
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