I'm doing a huge e-commerce style site that has no category system at all, other that filters like location and manufacturer. No categories, no drilling, just searching and then extensive filtering of the results. Once we have it past alpha I'll post it here for comment. So I can't tell you if it's successful, but my client is betting their company on it.
But I am hedging a little by including a "search cloud" on the front page that is really a tag cloud that will show the most popular tags from the items searched, rather than tags from the whole database or direct search words. That'll keep one search from getting too big in the cloud and show a wider range of tags. As for filtering, I'm using a dynamic filter system. We load a list of keywords generated by the first search that they can one-click remove those items from the results, and a list of related keywords that they can one-click add. Anyone seen anything like this? I haven't found one yet, but I doubt it's an original idea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40972 ________________________________________________________________ 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
