Search Patterns: The Future of Discovery – Peter Morville Peter’s talk came to a somewhat slow start but ended up being quite inspiring. In the first part of his talk, Peter laid out some principal search patterns and placed them in different contexts, such as desktop, mobile and kiosk. These can be found at his Flickr “Search patterns” library. One of the patterns that received special attention was faceted search. In my humble opinion this is actually more of a browse-pattern than a search one. However Peter pointed out rightly that faceted navigation is one of the most powerful and complex patterns out there today, much underestimated by UX designers. It is hard to do right. Peter briefly touched upon a couple of important emerging search paradigms. * Question and Answer (Like Wolfram Alpha); * Helping decision making (Like Hunch); * Helping understanding the world (Like Oakland crime spotting); * Search by singing (Like Midomi).
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