Wow! I don't even have time to go beyond the first two points! On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 4:39 AM, William Brall <[email protected]> wrote:
> Initial page is garbage. They should have used the same page as all > the other pages. The key objective, I believe, of this is to engage users with the special "question style" features of Bing/Live. I've found the image selection to be delightful and have hovered over a number of their hotspots. > > The pagination is standard and poor. Somehow google has managed to > convince everyone that bouncy-bottom-only pagination is a good idea. > it isn't. Top AND Bottom, please. I was involved in the decision to drop top pagination some time ago at MSN. The data showed the only time it was used with any frequency was to return to page 1 from page 2. Interestingly, there seems to be an interesting mental model around paging in search. The 2nd page is the only one where users prefer the numeric pager. After page 2, the Next button dominates paging triggers. My hypothesis is that this is the difference between "Ok, I'll try one more page" and "I'm gonna find this thing" in terms of motivation. Cheers, Andy, off to UPA... ________________________________________________________________ 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
