I designed something similar to this years ago when working for a company called SilverPlatter. The company sold subscriptions to citation databases to libraries.
The software was designed to allow librarians to build search "wizards" that would encapsulate the librarians' advanced search knowledge. Library patrons would then use the wizards, supplying their search terms in prompt-driven forms, and the wizard would do the appropriate boolean search with the correct thesaurus terms. We never ended up releasing the software, but it was well received during usabilty testing. The interface resembled a flowchart builder, and each "block" in the flowchart had search properties attached to it. Although obviously SilverPlatter owns the design, I would be happy to discuss in general how we made various design decisions. --------------------------------- Carol Peterson, Principal Usability Specialist The MathWorks www.mathworks.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ 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
