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Tag Archives: search
Designing for Use: Customer Lookup
I’m working on a Point-of-Sale like project for a retailer that needed a simple form to qualify a customer at the beginning of an order. It is often helpful for the service associate to review a customer’s past order history and allows them to skip the step of capturing contact info all over again. Continue reading
Posted in Details Tagged form, forms, information design, interaction design, lookup, search, ui 5 Comments
Get some Viewzi
If you asked me six months ago what I thought was wrong with search and how could it be improved, I probably would have given you a blank stare.
That was until I met Brandon and the gang at Viewzi. It only took one demo to convince me that they were on to something really special. So, I left my comfy corporate gig in December and joined the team. Continue reading
Improving on Infinite Scrolling
I’ve been thinking a lot about infinite scrolling lately. We’re cooking up some interesting stuff and Viewzi and are considering implementing this behavior in a few very specific scenarios.
What is infinite scrolling? Instead of breaking content into ‘pages’, as a user nears (or scrolls to) the end of a set of content or results, more content is seamlessly loaded behind it creating one long continuous page. Humanized likes this approach because the concept of “pages” really has no semantic meaning to a person. Those numbers at the bottom of the page don’t really mean much. Second, and perhaps most important, by scrolling to the bottom of a “page” the user is essentially telling the system that they are ready for more content. Why should they have to ask for it? Continue reading
Posted in Better Tagged 37 signals, ajax, design pattern, humanized, pagination, results, search, viewzi 4 Comments