In the employment website bumeran.com, we let the user start the search with as little as possible, and filter the results progressively.
That takes a lot of guesswork out of the problem (making decisions about results you're going to get, if any, before getting them). And there is no difference if you start the search with keywords, or clicking in a category or suggestion. >From the 5 fields you mention, the better suited to be the search starter are "state licensed in" OR "state" (showing both will be confusing). Makes no sense to start a search by "field of practice", and getting mostly candidates thousands of miles away. Data is never distributed in an uniform fashion across categories, etc, and in many ocassions applying just one filter yields manageable results. With a well thought search engine, that is. If the search engine needs too much input from the user to mask out bad results, then the search "engine" is asking the user to do the walk. -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31744 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
