Two points in favor of alphabetic lists: 1. Curiosity and exploration. I have nothing better to do right now. I will just look around and see who's here.
2. Volume and trust. By clicking letter A, I see a page listing 786 artists starting with A. This is a respectable number. I will trust that site as one that can deliver variety. Note that seeing a number written as 786 does not have the same effect as seeing a list of 786 items. Dimiter Simov Lucrat Ltd. www.lucrat.net Netage Solutions Inc. www.netagesolutions.com -----Original Message----- From: discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of parth Sent: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 6:07 To: disc...@ixda.org Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Browse or Search Hello, I am working on a digital music site and today our team got into a debate regarding the functionality of 'Browsing Artist - Alphabetically' on the Homepage. 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.. Most of the music sites (Mog, emusic and so on..) has the Browse Artist with Alphabetical order, I still wonder what kind of use cases would strongly demand Browsing Artists by Alphabetical order ? Thanks! ________________________________________________________________ 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 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.730 / Virus Database: 270.14.149/2630 - Release Date: 01/18/10 18:56:00 ________________________________________________________________ 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
