Speakers:
Greg Nudelman, CTO, Design Caffeine Inc.
Jaimie Sirovich, CTO, SEO Egghead Inc.
Sliders for Robots Pandas
Instead of sliders, use a single-level tree
Create hierarchy of values based on string prefixes, numerical ranges, etc.
K-I-S-S
Use the simplest form of search refinement
BOOK: Designing Search
Search landing pages from Amazon.com shows products, but also refined search
Show pandas and humans both products and facet filter states
Create Facet enabled landing pages
Yoast landing pages for magneto – blog post. ECommerce platforms that support facet enabled landing pages: endeca
Don’t make me thinkdrill
Don’t force user to make ambiguous and frustrating category decisions
Faceted allows
Avoid useless, superfluous content
Humans have intent, robots don’t.