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Your car example makes sense because there are pretty much only 2 options. Unfortunately people don't search for "solid shirts". At best they search for "plain
by danpalmer 7y ago
Your car example makes sense because there are pretty much only 2 options.
Unfortunately people don't search for "solid shirts". At best they search for "plain shirts", but there's a lot of taste to clothing that means people often do want a shirt without stripes, but are open to patterned/plain.
I think searching "shirts without stripes" is very legitimate in fashion.
I say this having built a clothing search function for the company I work for, and one that does not support this sort of query.
- shanecleveland 7y agoSo the one you built will exclude shirts with stripes if "shirts without stripes" is typed directly into a search box? Or there are secondary filters to omit and/or only show certain patterns?
- OJFord 7y agoI suppose my ideal UI understands your search, and then moves what it can to (interactively modifiable, as in Amazon's sidebar) filters, keyword searching on the rest. Currently when I search Amazon and then see that some of my search terms are filter options / categories, I try to remove that from the search (which isn't always easy) in case there's more results I'm missing because they happen not to have the keywords.