On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 23:32, Paul Trumble<paultrum...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually we did an a/b test with an auto-complete feature, with disastrous > results. Personally I think the lack of an agreed upon vocabulary killed > it. While you know what your high school is called, there might be 25 ways > to name your job.
hm… If the auto-completer just triggers suggestions based on more or less literally matching terms: yes, certainly. But maybe it would be possible to have it search within semantic fields instead? And how about elevating the usefulness of suggestions further with some social metrics of your users and the like? Further: maybe drilling down through possibilities could get easier when employing facets for classification instead of a taxonomy. > Thanks for the ideas. Let me know if you have any others. Let's see. But I'd like to ask more questions first: * What kind of information about the users do you already have at this point? * Is it absolutely crucial to request this information exactly at this time? Maybe it could be easier to collect the required information later. * How do the users come to register and what happens afterwards? * Could you maybe outline the whole registration process as currently planned? As far and detailed as possible? * On a side note: a large multi-step/-screen form does not seem like the optimal way to get good follow-through/conversion rates ;-) To come up with better ideas for this would probably also require some more knowledge about your prospective users, their goals, business objectives etc. I don't know how much about those you are willing or able to share without having NDAs signed, though. (Given the importance you hinted at, I guess that we might touch some sensible/strategic business issues here.) Cheers, Sascha -- & : create https://www.xing.com/profile/Sascha_Brossmann http://www.linkedin.com/in/brsma http://twitter.com/brsma ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
