> > 2) Businesses make up the core of our search and they don't want to > be associated with 0 even though they're displayed as 10. (I've > been told they did "testing" on this, but haven't been given > anything to prove this other than someone's word.)
Hi Eugene, Can you map the asterisk (*) key to the tenth result? Would businesses object to that? A "star" is special treatment :). Off the top of my head I recall seeing use of the asterisk as an accelerator in options menus in the Gmail mobile app. The * mapped nicely to their concept of starring messages in that case. Dev On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Eugene Kim <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone come across an example of search results which aren't > based on the "base-10" method of displaying results per page? > > For example, I've got a situation where a legacy product is > currently displaying 9 results per page and the reasons I've > gathered are: > > 1) Each result is associated with a number on the keypad (press 1 to > go to 1st result on the page, 2 for the 2nd result, etc.), but the > number 0 is being reserved as a keypad shortcut for another > function. > > 2) Businesses make up the core of our search and they don't want to > be associated with 0 even though they're displayed as 10. (I've > been told they did "testing" on this, but haven't been given > anything to prove this other than someone's word.) > > My initial thoughts are that sticking with a standard "view results > 1 - 10" would override these, but only for consistency and the fact > that results 1-9, 10-18, 19-27, etc. looks pretty strange. It might > be something which causes the user to take pause as to why this is > occurring. But I don't feel that's really presenting a strong case > against the existing design. > > Hope this makes sense. Any thoughts are appreciated, thanks. > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
