Search Patterns - Design for Discovery

What people are saying about Search Patterns

"Search Patterns is a delight to read -- very thoughtful and thought provoking. It's the most comprehensive survey of designing effective search experiences I've seen." --Irene Au, Director of User Experience, Google

"I love this book! Thanks to Peter and Jeffery, I now know that search (yes, boring old yucky who cares search) is one of the coolest ways around of looking at the world." --Dan Roam, author, The Back of the Napkin (Portfolio Hardcover)

"Search Patterns is a playful guide to the practical concerns of search interface design. It contains a bonanza of screenshots and illustrations that capture the best of today's design practices and presents a fresh perspective on the broader role of search and discovery." --Marti Hearst, Professor, UC Berkeley and author, Search User Interfaces (Cambridge University Press)

"It's not often I come across a book that asks profound questions about a fundamental human activity, and then proceeds to answer those questions with practical observations and suggestions. Search Patterns is an expedition into the heart of the web and human cognition, and for me it was a delightful journey that delivered scores of insights." --Dave Gray, Founder and Chairman, XPLANE

"Search is swiftly transforming everything we know, yet people don't understand how mavens design search: by stacking breadcrumbs, scenting widgets, and keeping eyeballs on the engine. I urge you to put your eyeballs on this unique and important book." --Bruce Sterling, Writer, Futurist, and Co-Founder, The Electronic Frontier Foundation

"As one who searches a lot (and often ends up frustrated), Search Patterns is a revelation." --Nigel Holmes, Designer, Theorist, and Principal, Explanation Graphics

"Search Patterns is a fabulous must-have book! Inside, you'll learn the whys and wheres of practically every modern search design trick and technique." --Jared Spool, CEO and Founder, User Interface Engineering

Search is among the most disruptive innovations of our time. It influences what we buy and where we go. It shapes how we learn and what we believe. In this provocative and inspiring book, you'll explore design patterns that apply across the categories of web, ecommerce, enterprise, desktop, mobile, social, and real-time search and discovery. Filled with colorful illustrations and examples, Search Patterns brings modern information retrieval to life, covering such diverse topics as relevance, faceted navigation, multi-touch, personalization, visualization, multi-sensory search, and augmented reality.

By drawing on their own experience-as well as best practices and evidence-based research-the authors not only offer a practical guide to help you build effective search applications, they also challenge you to imagine the future of discovery. You'll find Search Patterns intriguing and invaluable, whether you're a web practitioner, mobile designer, search entrepreneur, or just interested in the topic.
Discover a pattern language for search that embraces user psychology and behavior, information architecture, interaction design, and emerging technology
Boost enterprise efficiency and e-commerce sales
Enable mobile users to achieve goals, complete tasks, and find what they need
Drive design innovation for search interfaces and applications

List of contents

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 Pattern Recognition
Understanding Search
The Discovery of Color
Elephant in the Room
A Mapmaker's Manifesto Apophenia Redux
Chapter 2 The Anatomy of Search
Users
Interface
Engine
Content
Creators
Context
Chapter 3 Behavior
Patterns of Behavior
Elements of Interaction
Principles of Design
Chapter 4 Design Patterns
Autocomplete
Best First
Federated Search
Faceted Navigation
Advanced Search
Personalization
Pagination
Structured Results
Actionable Results
Unified Discovery
The End of the Beginning
Chapter 5 Engines of Discovery
Category
Topic
Format
Audience
Platform
Mode
Chapter 6 Tangible Futures
Methods and Deliverables
Search Scenarios
Experience Discovery
Appendix Recommended Reading
Colophon

About the author

Peter Morville is best known as a founder of the field of information architecture. His bestselling books include Information Architecture for the World Wide Web and Ambient Findability. He advises such clients as AT&T, Harvard, IBM, the Library of Congress, Microsoft, the National Cancer Institute, Vodafone, and the Weather Channel. His work on experience design and the future of search has been covered by Business Week, The Economist, Fortune, NPR, and The Wall Street Journal. Peter lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife, two daughters, and a dog named Knowsy.

Jeff Callender is vice president and design director of Q LTD, a strategic design consultancy with a global reach. Jeff is focused on bringing clarity to everyday graphic communications that promote positive user experiences. His wide body of work includes design for brand identity, user interface, print collateral, packaging, tradeshow, and exhibit graphics for a variety of clients including AT&T, Converse, Dow, NuStep, Jensen, ProQuest, and SIGGRAPH. Jeff has taught graphic design at the University of Michigan and lectured at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the SIGGRAPH Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.

Summary

Search is among the most disruptive innovations of our time. It influences what we buy and where we go. It shapes how we learn and what we believe. This book explores design patterns that apply across the categories of web, ecommerce, enterprise, desktop, mobile, social, and realtime search and discovery.

Report

"Das Buch ist eine echte Hilfe. Für Einsteiger und Forgeschrittene. Auch fortgeschrittene Themen kommen in dem Buch nicht zu kurz, es gibt hier sehr schöne Beispiele für anspruchsvolle Anwendungen der Search Patterns. Man kann das Buch mit Einschränkungen auch blutigen Anfängern empfehlen, wer die Herausforderung sucht, wird sicher auch als Einsteiger viel Freude mit dem Buch haben, die unzähligen Beispiele stellen eine gute Hilfestellung dar. Ein Kompliment an die beiden Autoren, Peter Morville und Jeff Callender: Das Buch ist ein richtig toller Wurf. Fazit - Ein Buch das auf keinem Arbeitsplatz fehlen sollte! Das Ding ist eine hervorragende Einführung zum Theama und sollte auf jeden Schreibtisch. Es ist ein Buch, das kaum Fragen offen lässt. Es ist praktisch alles drin, was derzeit in Sachen Search Patterns relevant ist. Eine unbedingte Kaufempfehlung von mir." - a href="target="_blank"php-nuke.de, Juni 2010

Product details

• Authors: Callender, Jeff Callender, Jeffery Callender, Morvill, Pete Morville, Peter Morville, Morville Peter
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.2010
• EAN: 9780596802271
• ISBN: 978-0-596-80227-1
• No. of pages: 250
• Weight: 372 g
• Series: Design for Disciple-Making
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; Informationsrückgewinnung, Information Retrieval, COMPUTERS / System Administration / Storage & Retrieval, COMPUTERS / Computer Architecture, pattern, search, discovery, mobile, findability