2010/1/18 parth wrote:
>I still wonder what kind of use cases
> would strongly demand Browsing Artists by Alphabetical order ?
There's one use case where "Browsing Artists by Alphabetical order" is
needed: when the user doesn't know the exact spelling of the artist's
name and has to find it scanning the list for similar names.
There are better alternatives for this use case: a "Did you mean...?"
spell check, and the predictive auto-complete suggestions you said are
already provided in your interface. Though the ordered list should
always be available as a fall-back (but not necessarily in a prominent
place).
> Although our Search functionality is pretty tight with predictive
> drop-down with first 3 characters and refreshes as the user types in,
> we were thinking if Browse Artist by Alphabetical order can give that
> value in discovering new Artists..
I can't see how Order by Name would be valuable for discovering
artists; the only significant information of each artist found by that
criteria is, well, their names. This doesn't say much about whether
the user would like it or not. Popularity lists and related
suggestions ("people who like this artist also like...") would be
better options for that goal.
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