Can you define the problem space a little better? What kind of search? What kind of information seeking behavior are your users exhibiting? Known-item? Exploratory? Re-finding? Is this a federated search requiring something like a meta-search engine? What kind of searching is happening here?
- W On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Kinjal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > > > I don't think placement of action button for search form > with 2 or more search parameters has been discussed in the group yet. > Everyone > in the group would have sometime worked to design search forms for > intranets or > websites that have 2 or more search parameters. I find a lot of research on > registration > forms but not on search forms. Luke has conducted great research on the > registration > forms and the design of the forms. A friend of mine has read the book by > Luke > and doesn't think that there is any thing mentioned on search form in the > book. > Search is totally different we can't apply results from registration form > study blindly > for search forms, it might be but I am curious to know if anyone researched > on a search form (I am talking of scenario where we have only primary action > and no secondary action) with 2 or more search parameters in basic or > advanced search. For > eg. to book a flight 2 or 3 search parameters are presented or to buy a > book there can be more than 2 parameters presented for basic search and most > of the websites > I found have "Search" button to the right.. Is there any study showing > which > placement works best for search button and why? > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- ~ will "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will Evans | User Experience Architect tel: +1.617.281.1281 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: semanticwill | gtalk: wkevans4 twitter: semanticwill | skype: semanticwill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ 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
