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woo you miSearch Behavior Patterns - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design: http://t.co/B7O4Rx4Q
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Marcus Boeschclassic: John Ferrara (@ ferrarajc) describes browse and search behavior patterns: http://t.co/pYUL49lE (via @boxesandarrows)
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Search behavior is the result of interplay among several independent factors the user brings to the search operation
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User behavior has a lot do to with a user’s familiarity with the subject on which he or she is searching.
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Users who have a better understanding of the breadth of a search engine’s capabilities have more ways to go about finding information
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User behavior is also influenced by the way users assimilate new information.
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Global thinkers first try to build a broad level of understanding across related topics.
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Analytical thinkers dive right into a single topic and research it thoroughly to resolve a specific problem.
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The extent to which users understand what they are trying to find determines their mode of seeking.
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search behavior can vary for the same user with the same task, due to idiosyncrasies in external pressures, working context, temperament, or mood
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Search behavior varies with domain expertise and technical knowledge, cognitive style, goal, and mode of seeking.
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- Navigational searches are efforts to reach a particular location, such as an intranet’s timesheet application.
- Informational searches seek out any documents relating to a topic, like a description of employee benefits.
- Transactional searches occur when the user primarily wants to accomplish something online, like changing her benefits elections.
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Global thinkers first try to build a broad level of understanding across related topics.
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Analytical thinkers dive right into a single topic and research it thoroughly to resolve a specific problem
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Informational searches seek out any documents relating to a topic, like a description of employee benefits
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Personas are descriptions of typical users that illustrate key attributes that are relevant to the design of a website or online system.
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. Alternating between search and browse
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When searching, users will often select a result that is closest to the topic they have in mind even if it isn’t a precise match.
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Don’t let pages come to a dead end, without any links to other resources on the site.
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Allow users to filter the search results by categories, so they can reduce the number of results while making them more topical.
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Dmitry could do this to hedge his strategy if his task isn’t fully defined. Hopeful that something will just pop out at him, he may do a quick scan of the first few pages, then fall back to another strategy if that doesn’t work out.
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search logs, try out each of the top queries and evaluate the quality of the top results returned, then optimize the content of those pages to improve their ranking.
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Consider providing tools that assist in formulating the query, such as suggestion functions that present searches similar to the one the user is typing.
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Lorem ipsumW jaki sposób ludzie wyszukują? jakie mają zwyczxaje odnośnie wyszukiwania?
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Dennis OConnorFascinating article written by John Ferrara . Info on search persona relates to 21cif site design
information-fluency webdesign Search information-architechture
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Search behavior is the result of interplay among several independent factors the user brings to the search operation, six of which are described below.
blogpost SEM searchenginemarketing onlinebehavior psychology usability
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tweez 23A search engine on an organization’s website or intranet is often built to support an overly narrow model of user behavior, which goes something like this:
search usability design interaction behavior web seo+user+behaviour user+behavior search+user+behavior delicious bookmarks
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Mathieu PlourdeBy examining the factors that cause variability in user behavior and considering personas that illustrate those variations, we can identify common search behavior patterns and the interface affordances that support them.
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Travis StilesThe good news is that while users vary widely in the ways they search, their behaviors follow a limited number of identifiable patterns. By examining the factors that cause variability in user behavior and considering personas that illustrate those variat
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Chris TagalotA search engine on an organization’s website or intranet is often built to support an overly narrow model of user behavior, which goes something like this: * User types in a search * Search engine gives back matching results * User reads the results and
usability search design interface behavior patterns searchengine review dacsp !!!
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Search Behavior Patterns by John Ferrara on 2008/01/30 | [0 Comments] A search engine on an organization’s website or intranet is often built to support an overly narrow model of user behavior, which goes something like this: * User types in a search * Search engine gives back matching results * User reads the results and picks the best one Simple. Better still, it asks very little of the user interface—only that it provide some way to submit a search, and some list in response. However, such simple models overlook the fact that humans are complex, convoluted, capricious, mutable, moody, multifaceted beings with broadly differing backgrounds, competencies, and frames of reference. (1) In practice, this can make the requirements for search interfaces quite a bit more complicated. The good news is that while users vary widely in the ways they search, their behaviors follow a limited number of identifiable patterns. By examining the factors that cause variability in user behavior and considering personas that illustrate those variations, we can identify common search behavior patterns and the interface affordances that support them. Factors that affect user behavior Search behavior is the result of interplay among several independent factors the user brings to the search operation, six of which are described below. Designers have no more control over these than they have over the color of the user’s hair. 1. Domain expertise User behavior has a lot do to with a user’s familiarity with the subject on which he or she is searching. When searching outside a domain of expertise, people will be less certain where to start, use less precise language, and have more difficulty evaluating search results. By contrast, experts in a field generally know what verbiage will work best, and so generally get better res
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