I don't like this grid layout, I can't tell which result is more relevant...the last item in column 1 or the first item in column 2. Lists are unambiguous, girds not so much.
Patrick V. Barrett -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Damon Dimmick Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 12:21 PM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Cuil I actually find the horizontal / multi column results search a lot more natural in this kind of setting. usually the summary section isn't necessary for most searches, so changing the format to a more blocky, horizontal grouping might actually be beneficial. Since users have to read the results in any case, their eyes are already moving horizontally, so the idea of putting the top results in a shoulder-to-shoulder seems like a natural. There are bad ways of doing that, of course. But from a purely visual (non interaction) design point of view, the entry page seems somehow.... wrong. Maybe that's just because current vogue and standard is an open, airy, white-space style search page. Right now the major problem seems to be server overload so it is tough to see how responsive the site will be. Andy Edmonds wrote: > The UI design is interesting as well. Multi-column search layouts > have typically not fared very well at scale, though I personally like > them just fine. > > It seems that avoiding a costly scroll for examining more results > would be a win, but people are quite use to a single column and it > makes the ad placement tricker. > > Will Evans wrote: >> A new clustering search engine? Wall Street Journal article here: * >> http://tinyurl.com/5b9e9q >> >> http://www.cuil.com/ launches today. >> >> > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 ________________________________________________________________ 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
