Search is among our most important and complex challenges. As the choice of first resort for many users and tasks, search is a defining element of the user experience. And, as a unique amalgam of content, metadata, technology and design, the search results interface demands intense cross-disciplinary collaboration. In this fast-paced session, we’ll describe a pattern language for search that explains user psychology and information seeking behavior, highlights emerging technologies and interaction models, illustrates repeatable solutions to common problems, and positions us all to design better search interfaces and applications.

Topics

• A flexible model for describing search patterns that embraces multiple contexts including enterprise, e-commerce, web, desktop, and mobile applications.
  
• An overview of classic and cutting-edge research focused on user psychology, behavior, and experience with respect to search, navigation, retrieval, findability, and keeping found things found.
  
• Designing next-generation search interfaces and applications that combine best practices in tagging and taxonomies with search analytics, guided navigation, thesauri, clustering algorithms, linguistic toolsets, and rich result interfaces.
  
• Evaluating the multi-channel challenges and real-world opportunities for search and discovery presented by the emerging Internet of objects.
  

Audiences

This session is intended for information architects, interaction designers, software developers, user experience managers, entrepreneurs, and anyone else (experts and beginners alike) with an interest in the design of search interfaces and applications.

Search is among our most important and complex challenges. As the choice of first resort for many users and tasks, search is a defining element of the user experience. And, as a unique amalgam of content, metadata, technology and design, the search results interface demands intense cross-disciplinary collaboration. In this fast-paced session, we’ll describe a pattern language for search that explains user psychology and information seeking behavior, highlights emerging technologies and interaction models, illustrates repeatable solutions to common problems, and positions us all to design better search interfaces and applications.

Topics

• A flexible model for describing search patterns that embraces multiple contexts including enterprise, e-commerce, web, desktop, and mobile applications.
  
• An overview of classic and cutting-edge research focused on user psychology, behavior, and experience with respect to search, navigation, retrieval, findability, and keeping found things found.
  
• Designing next-generation search interfaces and applications that combine best practices in tagging and taxonomies with search analytics, guided navigation, thesauri, clustering algorithms, linguistic toolsets, and rich result interfaces.
  
• Evaluating the multi-channel challenges and real-world opportunities for search and discovery presented by the emerging Internet of objects.
  

Audiences

This session is intended for information architects, interaction designers, software developers, user experience managers, entrepreneurs, and anyone else (experts and beginners alike) with an interest in the design of search interfaces and applications.