I once did a music web site (now defunct: http://tinyurl.com/ycofvkq).
Alpha listings are a great way to prove that the website offers more
artists than you can shake a stick at. People scan lists to evaluate
the general quality of the offerings.
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On Jan 24, 2010, at 2:50 PM, Suba Periyasami wrote:
> A music site should attract not just the primary users who knows what their
> goals
> are (what they want to listen to and buy), but also the general audience who
> are not
> always familiar with the new artist or the playlist. Scanning the l
A music site should attract not just the primary users who knows what their
goals
are (what they want to listen to and buy), but also the general audience who
are not
always familiar with the new artist or the playlist. Scanning the list by
names, their images or listening to
sample of their songs
I tend to be with the search camp on this one. It, of course, largely
depends on who the primary users are and what their goals are (and
what the primary business goals of the site are). If the idea is to
provide users with a way to find the music they love and play it/buy
it easily, search is th
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[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
Hey Parth,
My two cents on this topic...
As far as I understand, an indexed nav (A-Z) would be useful only if
there is a very large known volume of data (such as a dictionary
where you know the spelling) if the ultimate objective of the nav in
this case is to reveal new data and encourage deeper b
I have to agree with Diego, I don't see how browsing by name will
help users discover music they are interested in. A "Browse by
Genre" or "Find artists similar to..." would probably be a better
fit. Of course, those results of artists in a particular genre could
be ordered alphabetically by de
Two reasons to keep alphabetical navigation:
1 - Create an overview
It´s valuable to give users a broad sense of the whole collection
covered by the site, specially if it is driven to a specific style.
2 - Allow exploration
It is a mistake to assume that every user come to your site with a
sharpl
Hey Parth,
Two thoughts.
Sometimes you can't remember the name of the artist so browsing
through an alpha list could help you find them.
Browsing artists alphabetically is a feature most people would
expect. It's kind of a baseline interaction, so omitting it would
create confusion and possibly
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 scanni
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 i
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