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excellent work! The only think I'd say is to make the "update" button more prominent (eg add another one beneath the "searching for tags" sliders). A few times
by 10ren 16y ago
excellent work!
The only think I'd say is to make the "update" button more prominent (eg add another one beneath the "searching for tags" sliders). A few times I wondered why it was not updating the results, and had to hunt around for it. Maybe some people, at the margin in terms of interest, would give up on it because of this.
It would be nice if there was some natural way for the results to update without specifically requesting it - eg. like how the "moreofit" links work. The way google does it in "search tools" for time choice is interesting: it provides typical defaults, that are linked (eg. Past 24 hours,Past week etc). I've always used it by just clicking on one of them, so the issue of "updating" doesn't occur. [reminiscent of 37signals' defaults]. Perhaps the truth is that while someone might theoretically want the results from the past 22 hours, in practice no-one ever does. Thus, the defaults are adequate. For your importance sliders, I guess this could be done with two links "important" vs "secondary" for each slider.
Of course, sometimes you want to assemble a search, and only then execute it (not have it update after every single term is added). For this, the standard practice seems to be to have a "search" button directly underneath however the search is configured (eg this what google search does for "custom range", for time, in web tools). So this would mean adding a "search" button beneath the sliders (not labeled "update", even though that is also an accurate description - I guess, maybeuse "moreofit", if you want to promote the brand at possible expense of usability).
tl;dr add a "search" button beneath the "searching for tags" sliders.
- nostrademons 16y ago"The way google does it in "search tools" for time choice is interesting" Google actually does it about four different ways. There're defaults for common cases like past day/week/month, but there's also software that tries to guess if a particular date range is interesting, eg: http://www.google.com/search?q=jessie+slaughter http://www.google.com/search?q=jessie+slaughter Then there's "Latest", which actually does update in real time, if it has new results. And then there's "Custom date range", which lets you pick with a calendar widget and then requires that you hit Search again, much like MoreOfIt does.
- photon_off 16y agoThanks for the feedback. I think adding another update button below the tag sliders is a good idea. As per the "more natural way of updating results", I might use Ajax to plop in the new results when any search options are changed.. though this could lead to further complications: Currently you can click on a tag to add it to the "include" and "exclude" tag filters. If you click a tag and suddenly the results you were looking at abruptly disappear and reappear, it might not be so nice. What do you think of this idea: Any time a change is made to the search options, the "update" button starts glowing (fading in and out or changes colors) so as to notify the user that it wants to be clicked?
- 10ren 16y agoGlowing is an interesting idea, but I think just placing the search button beneath would be helpful enough - then it's obvious to the user that they need to hit that, and it's easy to find. That would solve both of the problems that I had, anyway.